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Quotes About Transient

These transient facts, These fugitive impressions. Must be transformed by mental acts, To permanent possessions. Then summon up your grasp of mind, Your fancy scientific, Till sights and sounds with thought combined Become of truth prolific
~ James Clerk Maxwell
And after that the dream faded,
~ James Dashner
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.
~ James Goldsmith
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long
~ Douglas Coupland
Life is a Drama, We Come and we Go. Before the curtains are drawn, We must Enjoy the Show!"
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
I don't want to be something that just comes and goes.
~ Kendrick Lamar
Time, You Old Gypsy Man Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?
~ Ralph Hodgson
Delight, unfortunately, doesn't last. It's like the smile from a beautiful stranger in a stairwell — it's fleeting. It cannot be otherwise — recognition is not an extended process.
~ Raph Koster
Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you've arrived... you've never arrived in football.
~ Chris Coleman
Bubbles rose in it like false hopes.
~ Raymond Chandler
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.
~ Richard Dawkins
Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, but while it lasted
~ Kate Atkinson
A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
~ Dante Alighieri
Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.
~ Homer
The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.
~ Emma Lazarus
Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
~ Robert Burns
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.
~ Horst Kohler
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
~ William Wordsworth
Nature never remembers, that's why she's beautiful.
~ Alberto Caeiro
You are a bubble in the ocean of life that has come to enjoy the glints of the morning light.
~ Debasish Mridha
Love is the language of life and all others are transient epi-phenomena. Like a fish, we are swimming in the ocean of love. We are so busy seeking love that we don't realize we are swimming in love.
~ Debasish Mridha
Kindness can be short, sweet, transient, and random, but its effects echo forever.
~ Debasish Mridha