Quotes About Transience

It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes; The years will make me sad and cold, It is the happy heart the breaks. The hearts asks more than life can give, When that is learned, then all is learned; The waves break fold on jewelled fold, But beauty itself is fugitive, It will not hurt me when I am old.

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

We're only immortal for a limited time.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

Do not spend your time thinking about the world or your relationships to individuals. These are all impermanent. They have only to do with the body.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

moments bleed together, no span to time

The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

I knew that it wouldn't last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.

Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.