Quotes About Transient

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

Hunger that comes and goes turns time into memory.

He was a meteor streaking across the heavens

So you may what to ask yourself the question: What are the things that upset and disturb me? If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small. That will be your unconscious belief. What are the small things? Ultimately all things are small things because all things are transient.

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

El amor podía llegar de repente, sin presentirlo, del sitio más inesperado, y quedarse un tiempo antes de alejarse hacia un lugar inalcanzable.

In this business, you can come and go in a second.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.

The origin of the word "body" is the Anglo-Saxon "bodig" meaning abode. Which is what the physical body is, you see, Robert. A transient dwelling for the real self.

the exuberant are easily engaged. And exuberance is, in its very effusiveness, liable to misconstruction and suspicion, often misinterpreted as sexual interest when none is intended, or as implying a more sustained emotional commitment than is warranted by the high spirits that, however persuasive, may prove to be transient or directed in any number of places.

Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.

The power of weapons is transient and destroys everything. The power of love is everlasting and creates all things.

The mutable, rank-scented many.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, a grave to rest in, and a fading name!

O joy! that in our embersIs something that doth live,That nature yet remembersWhat was so fugitive!

I wiped my palms together, brushing the petals that had stuck to them back into the stream. Petals with frilled edges, pale ones, vivid ones, petals with the calyx still attached. They all clung for a moment to the bricks of the wash landing, but in no time at all they were caught up in the stream again and melted into the mass.

In fact, it's entirely plausible that the factors affecting people's preferences are microscopic and fleeting.

Transient guests are we.

Outer beauty is transient, but the inner beauty of a kind heart gets brighter with time. Be kind and get prettier forever.

Life is mostly froth and bubble

Emotions change like the wind, and you can't stop them. No one can. They keep moving; that's why they're called emotions and not e-standingstills.

I believe we are all transient, she began. She thought for awhile and added, I believe that we are half-blind and full of errors. I believe that we understand very little, and what we do understand is mostly wrong. I believe that life cannot be survived - that is evident! - but if one is lucky, life can be endured for quite a long while. If one is both lucky and stubborn, life can sometimes even be enjoyed.