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Quotes About Transient

Easy come, easy go.
~ Unknown
Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.
~ Unknown
'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.
~ Martin Van Creveld
It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.
~ Michael Ball
Transient pleasures, drastic measures.
~ Don DeLillo
won't last, it's
~ Donna Tartt
Death is sometimes so discreet that it steals in noiselessly, stays for only a moment and carries off its prey...
~ Jacqueline Harpman
He was as uncontainable as a handful of water: if you squeezed, it trickled away.
~ Lynn Cullen
Nothing is as good when you have it as it is bad when it's gone.
~ Unknown
Memories were built of air, and blew away.
~ Madeline Miller
anxious little smile that came and went—a mendicant
~ John D. MacDonald
Oh, you're like mercury. You won't be picked up.
~ John Fowles
Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
~ John Keats
Sometimes love is not permanent, but the feeling lasts forever
~ Unknown
Relationships are like stars, some are bright, some are only for a short time and no matter how invisible they may look, some live forever.
~ Unknown
Morimos con demasiada facilidad.
~ Madeline Miller
Janey. A problem. He liked her, but only for a couple of hours at a time.
~ John Sandford
Note that an individual thought does not last long. It is impermanent. If it comes, it will go.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
It actually giggles at you as it goes by.
~ Rick Monday
But memories and griefs are fleeting things.
~ Marcel Proust
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
~ Margaret Atwood
You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?
~ Marian Keyes
Oh, this here and now, this particular snapshot fragment of forever.
~ Marisa de los Santos
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings