Quotes About Transient

I believe that we are all transient," she began. She thought for a while 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.

Other life pulsed about them — and was gone.

she never quite completes her sentence but is always almost

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle.

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

But it didn't last.

people seek out information that suggests they are correct, in a world of transient advantage the most valuable information is often disconfirming—it helps highlight where the greatest risks in being wrong are.

For people with valuable, rare, or in-demand skills, however, the rewards are likely to be rich indeed. This last chapter of the book discusses how you should be thinking about your personal career strategy in light of transient advantages.

But then it passed, as all things do.

14- Just as he didn't understand why a wave of something, something like the tail end of a sad dream, always swept through him whenever he heard the jingling, surprising him each time like an unexpected gust of wind. But then it passes, as all things do, it passed

everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself as you're going to sleep, the ones you've already forgotten by the time you wake up.

It didn't feel like my world. It felt more like a dream. Something temporary.

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

Life is eternal and, at the same time, ephemeral.

We live in a disposable, transient-feeling world and usually after five years you go on to the next thing, maybe now even less than five years.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

This visit is a bit of the same, and the same feels precious and fleeting.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

There was nothing to make him last a long time.

He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.