Quotes About Transient

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

See our thoughts as mental events that come and go in the mind like clouds across the sky

Cats come and go without ever leaving.

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Love is eternal while it lasts.

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief

Love lodged in a woman's breast, Is but a guest

Love is like a faucet, you can turn it off an' on, But when you think you've got it, it's done turned off and gone

In this world of ours, We eat only to cast out, Sleep only to wake, And what comes after all that Is simply to die at last.

??? ???? ??? The summer grasses— For many brave warriors The aftermath of dreams. - Donald Keene, Travelers of a Hundred Ages, New York, 1999, p. 316 (Translation: Donald Keene)

The letters fading like retreating strangers in a fog.

Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay.

Personal existence is intermittent

Da mu kažem: sam sam, hafiz-Muhamede, sam i tužan, pruži mi ruku i samo za ?as budi mi prijatelj, otac, sin, drag ?ovjek ?ija me blizina raduje, pusti me da zapla?em na tvojim usahlim prsima, zapla?i i ti, zbog mene, ne zbog svih ljudi, zadrži mi svoj vlažni dlan na tjemenu, kratko ?e trajati, a potrebno mi je; kratko, jer evo ve? prvi pjetlovi pjevaju.

The featureless trundle of my existence began to change. At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an idea. Another person. An idea of a person

Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!

I just met history for a couple of hours, and then our ways parted.

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

Un acto humano es como una piedra arrojada al mar. Cae con gran estrépito y agita el agua, pero al cabo de un instante la superficie está de nuevo lisa y no se ve ya rastro de la piedra. Lo mismo ocurre con la memoria

And finally, apartments for the most part fit the bill as "short-term temporary housing," just a notch above a hotel or motel. Yes, we can find folks who live in an apartment for years; but most tenants are short-termers and move more frequently than those who take up residence in a house.

Why had he come? When would he go? It was his way to appear then disappear, and as she boiled water for their tea, she thought, I could turn around and he could be gone.