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Quotes About Transient

He'd forget all that, just as he would forget this night. The memories would linger for a time, but they'd grow dull. The ache he felt now, the frustation and anger and sorrow - all those would fade too. She'd given him a night to remember, but of course he'd forget.
~ Loretta Chase
Baharda çilek yemek, evet, olur böyle ÅŸeyler yaÅŸamda, ama y?l?n çok k?sa bir bölümünde yaln?zca ve ÅŸu s?ra çok uzakta.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Love is eternal while it lasts.
~ Vinicius de Moraes
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
~ Vladimir Putin
A couple of hours after Sunset Michael Robartes returned and told me that I would have to learn the steps of an exceedingly antique dance, because before my initiation could be perfected I had to join three times in a magical dance, for rhythm was the wheel of Eternity, on which alone the transient and accidental could be broken, and the spirit set free.
~ W.B. Yeats
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.
~ Reginald Heber
In my opinion we must first of all make the following distinction: what is it that always is and has no becoming, and what on the other hand becomes continually and never is? The one comprehensible by the mind with reasoning, the other conjectured by opinion with irrational sensation, coming to be and passing away, but never really being.
~ Plato
By the time Bibi reached her bedroom, she understood as never before that home wasn't a place but rather a place in the heart. In this troubled world, everything was transient except what we could carry with us in our minds and hearts. Every home ceased to be a home sooner or later, but not with its demolition. It survived destruction as long as just one person who had loved it still lived. Home was the story of what happened there, not the story of where it happened.
~ Dean Koontz
The outrage vanished as quickly as it had come
~ Debbie Macomber
Time is rented, Joe thought, never owned.
~ Dennis Lehane
I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.
~ Douglas Carter Beane
A perfect life is like a cloud. You can reach it, but you can't always see it.
~ Unknown
we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.
~ Italo Calvino
But what time do they leave for original thinking? Or for examining one's own soul? And to what degree do these matters frustrate the brain's ability to focus, as Paul put it, on the good, the beautiful, and the true, rather than be controlled by the transient, the trivial and the traumatic? And
~ Unknown
As to your question--is there such a thing as a fairy tale romance? Prudie would say yes, and in fact she has had one. Alas, they do not endure. Fairy tales are to romance what fireworks are to the night sky. They are transient states...and while temporarily thrilling, not what one builds a life around.
~ Lori Gottlieb
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
~ Unknown
At the time, I thought it temporary. Still, I was so pleased to
~ Lorraine Heath
It's just a temporary thing.
~ Lou Reed
World is suddener than we fancy it.
~ Louis MacNeice
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
~ Unknown
It's like a fidget spinner." Then the offering dropped to the ground, tossed aside. The wind had moved on. "Those get boring fast," said Darnell.
~ John August
Thus she abides; her Towers forever rising, forever vanishing. Never or Always.
~ John Cowper Powys
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
~ Harlan Ellison