Quotes About Transient

Moments are like gas, they pass.

As soon as he seized happiness it dispersed and reappeared somewhere else. Like Fillory, like everything good, it never lasted. What a terrible thing to know.

A fad is something that gives just a couple of minutes of extreme fun. It can be useful. It can be useless.

Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.

Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

Everything is temporary!

Life is an isle of sorrow, you live today and die tomorrow!

I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too. I pass a nurse, I love her, it ends when I go around a corner; at a restaurant I see a forlorn man at the table next to me, and I love him, and the conversation pulls me back, and it's ended. A patient comes in, and she is sick, and I love her, and then she dies, and I never see her again. This is what I live for. Don't think that it's sad.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Vampires are always saying good-bye. We never stop anywhere very long. We are forever picking up our roots and moving on to new pastures. It is our way.

It's only forever, not long at all

El pan comido es pronto olvidado.

Ten years is a long time in this fugitive world.

Wir sind voller Begegnungen, Begegnungen ohne Dauer und ohne Abschied, wie die Sterne. Sie nähern sich, stehen Lichtsekunden nebeneinander entfernen sich wieder: ohne Spur, ohne Bindung, ohne Abschied.

but before she can grasp hold of it, it floats away, like the seeds of a dandelion on the breeze, out of reach.

I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.

I, alive and glimmering like the instants, spark and go out, alight and go out, spark and go out.

Yo, obra anónima sólo justificable mientras dura mi vida. ¿Y después? Después todo lo que he vivido será de una pobreza superflua.

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

La ocasión en fugaz la experiencia insegura y el juicio difícil

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Como estrellas fugases. Hermosos, brillantes, pero efímeros.