Quotes About Transient

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

The problem with hashtags is if someone starts a new hashtag, people move on.

E ela era mais rica naqueles sonhos do que na realidade, pois o que os olhos veem é passageiro, mas o que não veem é eterno.

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

Only in brief flashes does it come to us that we may never see someone again.

I hang out inseparably with someone for a few days. We devour each other, tell all our stories, and then move on. Things here are not stable.

You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime – a whole word for just being sad – about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

Life, of course, is full of people you discover you like a lot and then never see again.

presence on earth, left in the minds and souls of those who loved them, but those don't last long.

Was wir von Natur sehn, ist Kraft, die Kraft verschlingt, nichts gegenwärtig, alles vorübergehend, tausend Keime zertreten, jeden Augenblick tausend geboren, groß und bedeutend, mannigfaltig ins Unendliche; schön und häßlich, gut und bös, alles mit gleichem Rechte nebeneinander existierend.

as thin as piss on a rock.

Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of attention only for as long as they remained fresh, which was not very long at all. They

Newspaper stories were as insubstantial as smoke, as long-lived as mayflies. They did not take root but were instead like weeds that crawled along the ground, stealing the sunlight from more deserving tales.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.

Life really is very brief.

And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd—"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."

Love might come suddenly, unsought, from a place not looked for, and stay for a while before departing into the distance, to a place where it cannot be reached.

Roads go on While we forget, and are Forgotten like a star That shoots and is gone.

Quanto a mim, várias vezes ao dia me acontece de gostar de alguém. Você não? Durante pouco tempo, depois passa.

As for the minor characters, it seemed natural for each of them to have his good or bad moment in the life of the protagonists and then slip into the background, just as when we think back on our existence and, of the many people who entered the flow of our lives, remember almost nothing.

words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it's only for a very brief time.