Quotes About Transient

How many other are there? I thought. People, things, seen and then forgotten, leaving nothing behind them, not even the knowledge that they're missing.

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

occasional gust of fretful

Of all the emotions, Hope was the most mysterious. It grew like the blue lotus, snaking up from muddy hearts, beautiful while it lasted.

This life is no more than the blink of an eye compared to life everlasting.

like a zephyr shooting into the night sky, leaving a trail of moonlit particles that swirled in brief, unspeakable beauty, and then faded into nothing.

La vida no nos pertenece, es un préstamo.

Fashion is instant - after six months, it disappears, and you have to start again. That's the nature of it.

Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.

My home is in heaven. I'm just passing through this world.

Exteriors, you learn, are temporal and illusionary and thus meaningless.

When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Is stress always bad? No - if a stressor isn't too extreme, is only transient, and occurs in what overall feels like a benevolent environment, it's great, we love it - that's what play and stimulation are.

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.

I have a transient lifestyle. America is where I come to work, but my home is London. I like being bi-continental.

I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place.

I see myself as a transient, not an immigrant.

The cliche is that Washington is a transient town of people who blow in and out every four years with the new administrations. But the reality is that people have lived in Washington for generations, and their lives are worth examining, I think.