Quotes About Transient

Men flourish only for a moment.

She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

First there are Leaf People. These are the folks who are in my life only for a season. I can't depend on them or count on them because they have weaknesses of their own and are only able to offer shade. Like leaves, they take what they need and as soon as it gets cold, or a fierce wind blows, or the rain comes, they're gone. I am not angry with them; it's just who they are.

He (Orwell) always made an impression of the passing traveler who meets one on the station, points out that one is waiting for the wrong train, and vanishes

on short stories: "...something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we want most of all is fleeting at best.

with no more weight than a shadow.

Whatever we shared is gone, because it was destined to be gone from the minute it started.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest and that therefore is simple enough in their wants and needs to remain innocent. The combination of their innocence and their intelligence allows them to serve as a bridge bewtween what is transient and what is eternal, between the finate and the infinate.

Now and then, I remember you in times Unbelievable. And in places not made for memory But for the transient, the passing that does not remain.

Marile pasiuni sunt rare ca ?i capodoperele. În afar? de o astfel de iubire, nu exist? decât aranjamentele, capricii trec?toare, demne de dispre?uit, ca tot ceea ce e mic.

Absolute values are the things that are important whether you like them or not. Relative values depend on social contexts and personal preferences and conditions of life. Our current market system pursues relative transient values at the cost of absolute lasting values.

Soon after I left the Canton I read, in an otherwise unsuccint paper on ecology: "Organisms themselves are relatively transient entities through which materials and energy flow and eventually return to the environment." In my more skittish moments I am currently inclined to think that I would rather like this sentence as my epitaph.

Organisms themselves are relatively transient entities through which materials and energy flow and eventually return to the environment.

luxury is fleeting, but enjoy in it while lasts.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

He's just a flash in the pants.

What you wouldn't have suspected lives & trembles in the air. Those treasures of the day you keep just out of reach. These come & go in truckloads but no one stops to see them.