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Quotes About Transient

For as long as the Source entrusts something to your hands, treat it as something borrowed, like a traveller at an inn.
~ Epictetus
You merely pass the time, making millennia fly by.
~ Erica Jong
Some people are like shooting stars. They burst through our lives in a spectacular arc, but they don't stay long. They just leave a trail.
~ Erica Orloff
Some people are like shooting stars. They burst through our lives in a spectacular arc, but they don't stay long. They just leave a trail ~Illuminated
~ Erica Orloff
Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.
~ Amin Maalouf
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
~ Andre Maurois
Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
~ Andre Maurois
Nas?l da canl?yd? hepsi. Nas?l da çabuk bitti rüya.
~ Andrew Crumey
Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.
~ Edwin Starr
I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.
~ Clemence Poesy
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
~ Rafael Vinoly
It actually giggles at you as it goes by.
~ Rick Monday
It took me years to learn that happiness is not something one attains, but fleeting, like sunshine. It comes and goes.
~ Rick R. Reed
Frequently, to be an American then was to be periodically unmoored, transient, so bereft of options that moving on was the only choice.
~ Rinker Buck
He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.
~ Robert Jordan
Moderate, transient stress (i.e., the good, stimulatory stress) promotes hippocampal LTP, while prolonged stress disrupts it and promotes LTD—one reason why cognition tanks at such times. This is the inverted-U concept of stress writ synaptic.4
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.
~ Laura Whitcomb
Today is the first and last day of forever.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.
~ Doménico Cieri Estrada
Life is just a moment of time and it pass by
~ Black Thought
You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.
~ Omar Khayyam
But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
~ Joseph Conrad
Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.
~ Omar Khayyam