Quotes About Transience

There is no REASON to keep SEASONAL people around for a LIFETIME.

Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.

The meaning of life is that it ends

Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery.

See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities.

Life is but a breath.The end of life is the last breath of a man.

What a strange thing!to be alivebeneath cherry blossoms.

We don't own life, we live under a rental agreement which can be terminated at anytime without notice.

Sooner or later we're all gone, so no one bothers getting attached.

If the breath of life is taken, man turn to dust.

We sleep in many tents,

A state of exalted pleasure lasts only moments or in some cases, and with some intermissions, hours or days, and is the occasional brilliant flash of enjoyment, not its permanent and steady flame.

The days are short The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark.

I saw him now going the way of all flesh.

All the flowers of the spring Meet to perfume our burying; These have but their growing prime, And man does flourish but his time. Survey our progress from our birth: We are set, we grow, we turn to earth.

And it might be amusing to pass through the world once more before I return to the cloistered and slow extinction that awaits us all.

Gyvenimas, lyg margaspalvio stiklo skliautas, D?m?ja balt? amžinyb?s švies?, Kol šuk?m krenta trypiamas Mirties.

Even now, after all these years, I can taste the bitter sweetness of that body, and feel beneath me the firm warmth. It is odd that I can do so, for I know that the flesh of Julius Antonius now is smoke, and is dispersed into the air. That body is no more, and my body remains upon this earth. It is odd to know that. No other man has touched me since that afternoon. No man shall touch me for as long as I shall live.

But for a little while," Francine said, "you will be here;

novelty is a wonderfully short-lived thing.

It embarrasses him when I try to overhear conversations in restaurants, or sit and stare with my mouth open in the train, and what good does it do, since other people's lives remain an illusion? You may catch at their clothes and are sometimes left with shreds of them in your hands, but the people themselves are gone and then what little treasure and brightness you may bring home to yourself… changes at once to darkness, is absorbed by your own shadow.

It embarrasses him when I try to overhear conversations in restaurants, or sit and stare with my mouth open in the train, and what good does it do, since other people's lives remain an illusion? You may catch at their clothes and are sometimes left with shreds of them in your hands, but the people themselves are gone and then when little treasure and brightness you may bring home to yourself… changes at once to darkness, is absorbed by your own shadow.