Quotes About Transient

Not long, my duckie

Life is something very short that happens in between deaths.

So I started in, but I could not go on. Each word I spoke erased itself in the air.

We are only but guests at Time's tea party.

Time stays, we go.

Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

Our lives are like the wind... or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other... Then fade away

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real passion, and without having excited even any admiration but what was very moderate and very transient.

I've had particularly unpleasant stuff, and it has been reported that I've had death threats. Twitter and Facebook give people who have always been out there a platform from which to hurl abuse, and all I can do is try to block it out and remind myself that tweets are transient and get lost in the ether after a few moments.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

Nothing lasts. You think it's going to. You think 'Here's something I can hold on to', but it always slips away.

No, he wasn't waiting; he was merely there, had been there before I arrived and would be there when I'd left. I had the feeling I was of no more significance to him than a passing cloud is to a shepherd resting on a hillside.

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

Ghosts are nothing if not capricious.

She looks after him, feeling a wave of longing, loneliness. Not sexual particularly but to do with the nature of cities, the thousands of strangers you pass in a day, probably never to see again.

entire subcultures could rise overnight, thrive for a dozen weeks, and then vanish utterly.

She was talking about those odds and ends of "futuristic" Thirties and Forties architecture you pass daily in American cities without noticing; the movie marquees ribbed to radiate some mysterious energy, the dime stores faced with fluted aluminum, the chrome-tube chairs gathering dust in the lobbies of transient hotels.

ELEVATION: Defining moments rise above the everyday. They provoke not just transient happiness, like laughing at a friend's joke, but memorable delight.

Defining moments rise above the everyday. They provoke not just transient happiness, like laughing at a friend's joke, but memorable delight.

There was a delicate, transient point somewhere between too much alcohol and too little where her pool skills absolutely peaked.

I' am a transient electrochemical dance, made of myriad bits of information; and information, as the physicists tell us, is physical.