Quotes About Transient

Life is a flow of changes—transient and ephemeral.

Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old.

And are we not all "mere guests" upon this whirling earth?

Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever.

Life is nothing but a transient dream dancing at the tip of a leaf called time.

The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a heart is everlasting and magnificent.

We are floating with the stream of time like a bubble with a stream of water.

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.

a moving river of light that flowed above the dark water like its negative image and attained a transient and fragile dominion over the provinces of night. BOOK THREE

tried to hold the feeling but it was warm as new bath water and just as hard to hold.

But intentions could be like cloud animals in the sky, so clear for a while, then shifting, then fading, then gone.

A crime you're trying to solve is a temporary

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.

Happiness...I see you..You are that wave that comes and goes...always fast...and always leaving a gap behind...

She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

He's just a flash in the pants.

A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.