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Quotes About Transient

Hay dos clases de amistad, una pasajera como un cometa y otra que dura toda la vida como las estrellas.
~ Elena Poniatowska
The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of 'adaptation through maladaptation' which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.
~ Anthony Storr
we are souls. We have bodies, which are just temporary houses for our souls. . .The body is a container.
~ Anton Treuer
If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.
~ Jimmy Iovine
Time sometimes passes quite quickly.
~ Jimmy Page
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
~ Christoph Martin Wieland
I like when things happen very quickly, just flash in and flash out. It keeps things interesting.
~ Hilary Hahn
She did not know it then, that some of the moving force in our life are meant to touch us briefly and go there way.
~ Ruskin Bond
23. Nature takes substance and makes a horse. Like a sculptor with wax. And then melts it down and uses the material for a tree. Then for a person. Then for something else. Each existing only briefly. It does the container no harm to be put together, and none to be taken apart.
~ Marcus Aurelius
43. Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone
~ Marcus Aurelius
I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I'd turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.
~ Margaret Atwood
Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because the real mushroom plant was underground. The parts you could see - what most people called a mushroom - was just a brief apparition. A cloud flower.
~ Margaret Atwood
There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .
~ Ovid
Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.
~ Jewel
The Person is a bubble on Time's sea.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?
~ Ralph Hodgson
In all we do, and hear, and see, Is restless Toil and Vanity. While yet the rolling earth abides, Men come and go like ocean tides
~ Anne Bronte
I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.
~ Anne Rice
But this effervescence was frenetic and likely to vanish in an instant;
~ Anne Rice
But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever.
~ David Zindell
Life can seem rather unreal at times. Alive and well and loving one day. No longer there the next.
~ Richard Branson
Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.
~ Frederick Lenz
So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.
~ John Kasich