Quotes About Transient

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So flexible, and yet so stubborn is the human mind. So obedient to impulses the most transient and brief, and yet so unalterably observant of the direction which is given to it! How little did I then foresee the termination of that chain, of which this may be regarded as the first link?

Easy come, Easy go.

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

Reality was the keener for being fugitive, concealed, and doubtful...

Mysteries exists in every moment. For some, a tiny moment is their entire lifetime!

The transient vacuities of our cultural icons—success, peace, happiness, and distraction—pale before the question of whether or not one experiences this life as meaningful.

Thou hast fallen in darkness, like a star that shoots across the desert; when the traveller is alone, and mourns the transient beam!

I've gotten to go to far-off places in the world, have very unique, isolated, intense experiences for four or five months at a time, and then, kind of like a dream, those things disappear. You may see those people again, but it's never, ever going to be as intense as it was for that time period.

There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

Knowing what's ETERNAL will sustain you through the EPHEMERAL.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

Time stays, we go.

Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next.

But all the photograph told Heidi was that the answers, if there were any, were lost in the wanting and needing and doing. Ghostly figures, caught in a brutal flash of light, and then gone.

This randomness makes her feel like vapor, someone inconsequential and invisible.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

I have a habit of getting very obsessive about one thing, but it usually lasts no more than three days.

I came like water, and like wind I go

Don't worry—love that blooms this fast is just as fast to wither

Me? I'm nothing. I'm a fart in the air conditioning. I'm always there, but most of the time nobody knows it.

The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?