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Quotes About Transient

I loved him, you know, but I have a theory about love. I think that, however good it is, some love isn't meant to be for ever.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
~ Shelley Winters
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
~ Thomas Hardy
Had she perceived this meeting's import, she might have asked why she was doomed to be seen and coveted that day by the wrong man and not by some other man, the right and desired one in all respects - as nearly as humanity can supply the right and desired; yet to him who amongst her acquaintance might have approximated to this kind, she was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
~ Thomas Hardy
Bells] speak to us of our freedom, which responsibilities and transient cares make us forget.
~ Thomas Merton
But Time was a fickle ally, fleeting and inconstant
~ Kathleen Kirkwood
Flowers are a lot like friendships - beautiful but not meant to last.
~ Kelly Marrapodi-Munsell
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
~ Candice Bergen
Feelings are fleeting, no matter how earth-shattering they seem; they never last, always change.
~ Gena Showalter
Feelings are fleeting, no matter how eart-shattering they seem; they never last, always change.
~ Gena Showalter
As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.
~ Keegan Allen
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
~ Joseph Addison
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
~ William Winter
Nothing in this world is permanent.
~ German proverb
Impermanence is the law of the universe.
~ Carlene Hatcher Polite
There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today will be gone or, at best, riddled with broken links and outmoded code in five years, tops.
~ Robin Sloan
Love, I've discovered is a transient emotion best satisfied by a good fuck.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The interwoven branches of the firs droop from the weight, bendable but not brittle. I want to be just as still and somehow pliable and permanent in each moment of being alive, to ponder how transient and yet how pregnant each instant feels.
~ Susan Gubar
Sparks are warm while they last.
~ Susan Price
Swami Vivekananda
~ They come and go
I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.
~ Vikas Swarup, Q & A
For despite what some people say, love is not only a sweet falling bound to come and quickly go away.
~ Erich Fromm
It is but for a moment, comparatively, that anything looks strange or startling, — a truth that has the bitter and the sweet in it.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide—but so quickly close again!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne