Quotes About Transient

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

Actually I am, which is part of the problem; we are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

For despite what some people say, love is not only a sweet falling bound to come and quickly go away.

A few minutes of fear, a few seconds of anguish, and it is over.

You want everything so much and when you get it it's over and you don't give a damn.

Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?

Life is a breath, a passing breeze; a blade of grass, green and vibrant for a time, only to wither, die, and disappear. Soon you will be dead.

Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

Fads are born to die.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

I think everything is temporary.

Success and fame... both are temporary. There today, gone tomorrow.

I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

They fly by like a train window:

Distinct identities are strung together on the thread of memory, all of them provisional and perishable. No less fascinating than the birth, life, and death of our bodies are the births, lives, and deaths of these makeshift, transient identities. Reincarnation of the body is arguable; metamorphosis of identity is not.