Quotes About Transience

Animula vagula blandula Hospes comesque corporis Quae nunc abibis in loca Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nec, et ut soles, dabis iocos. Little wandering soul, Guest and companion of my body, Where are you going to now? Away, into bare, bleak places, Never again to share a joke.

It was a sad moment. There are sad moments in life, and this was one of them.

life picked up speed, and then most of it was gone—made you breathless, really.

Both of them laughed until they had tears in their eyes, and even then they kept on laughing. But Mary thought: Not one thing lasts forever; still, may Angelina have this moment for the rest of her life.

My point is, if we are lucky we bounce into someone. But we always bounce away again, at least a little.

She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.

a vida acelerava e, de repente, a maior parte já tinha passado;

We all live with people—and places—and things—that we have given great weight to. But we are weightless, in the end. A few weeks later I found out that William did not like watching me floss my teeth.

the way people can love those they barely know, and how abiding that love can be, and also how deep that love can be, even when—as in her own case—it was temporary. She

Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

Nu echter weet ik wat ik mis. Ik weet: mijn uren zouden van elkaar te onderscheiden moeten zijn. Ik kan ze nergens aan meten. Er is geen schaal. Geen enkel voorval markeert mijn tijd. Ik verstrijk dus tegenwoordig zelf.

What will happen to the world when you leave it? Nothing, in any case, will remain of what is now visible.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

the world of being is like this gravel: you think you own a car, a house, this blue-zigzagged shirt, but you just borrow these things. Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams and stood at Gibraltar, but you possess nothing.

El seductor no lo es sino para la que quiere ser seducida, y la verdadera virtud puede conservarse intacta entre todo lo demás. El amor es ligero, volátil, y se esfuma con el aburrimiento... ¿Comprende lo que quiero decir?

Nuestro mundo fabrica escombros en vez de ruinas, y en cuanto puede mete un bulldozer y lo hace desaparecer todo, dispuesto a olvidar.

Lo que se han de comer los gusanos, que lo disfruten los cristianos.

La vida es una aventura incierta en un paisaje difuso, de límites en continuo movimiento, donde las fronteras son artificiales; donde todo puede acabar y empezar de nuevo a cada instante, o terminar de golpe, como un hachazo inesperado, para siempre jamás. Donde la única realidad absoluta, compacta, indiscutible y definitiva, es la muerte. Donde sólo somos un pequeño relámpago entre dos noches eternas y donde, princesa, tenemos muy poco tiempo. —

those who are born only to die and whose nature is to be driven, appear to be in the act of dying and not in the act of living.

Al igual que un viajero no tiene apego a la posada donde se hospeda durante una noche, yo tampoco debo tener apego a este cuerpo, que es mi posada solo durante este renacimiento.

Cómo puede un ser fugaz apegarse a otro ser fugaz?, pues no volverá a ver a su ser amado en miles de nacimientos.

All that I possess and use Is like the fleeting vision of a dream. It fades into the realms of memory, And fading, will be seen no more.

Just as on a dark night black with clouds, The sudden lightning glares and all is clearly shown, Likewise rarely, through the Buddhas' power, Virtuous thoughts rise, brief and transient, in the world.