Quotes About Transient

moment of tangency a fleeting glimpse at what might have been.

I am a ghost. A wraith of atoms. A shadow.

Sex is ephemeral. Once it's over, it's over. Sex is not a lasting connection; it's only real while it's happening. It's not love.

Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.

But happiness, fleeting by nature, is often savored only after it has flown.

But, then, the truest perceptions of life, for me at least, have always proved to be the most elusive and the most shortlived

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom. Twice blessed is he who knows true love and can love all God's creatures. He who works selflessly for the welfare of others with love in his heart is thrice blessed. But the man who combines within his mortal frame knowledge, love and selfless service is holy and becomes a place of pilgrimage.

Samadhi is an opportunity to encounter our imperishable Self before the transient vehicle of body disappears, as in the cycle of nature, it surely must.

I'm a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

I discover her anew in each black cat I see ... And it is only when I try to touch her, to make her linger yet awhile, that she dies all over again. A snowflake in my hand...

Thank you," I whispered. ... "Remember me," I said, knowing they would. And then, as fast as a shooting star, I was gone.

Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

What came is gone forever every time

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?

Elle essaie de former des sons avec sa bouche. Mais ils éclatent comme des bulles, et ne reste qu'une impression blanche, un pli dans quelque chose qui se lisse dès qu'apparu, qui s'efface sitôt pensé. (p245)

I miss him every single day, he said. I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don't understand you at all stick around.

impermanence is the inescapable flavor of worldly life.

They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.

Humankind, fleet of life like tree leaves, unsubstantial as shadows, weak creatures of clay, wingless, ephemeral, sorrow worn, and dreamlike.

All fires burn out sooner or later.