Quotes About Transience

A differenza che nelle grandi difficoltà della vita, nelle piccole cose, nei momenti che passano in un lampo, risplende quella luce misteriosa che si vede quando si realizza un sogno.

Il tempo che niente può fermare non scorre solo per piangere sulle cose perdute ma anche per ottenere un'infinità di momenti bellissimi, uno dopo l'altro. Ah, questo è un piccolo premio, pensai.

Tutte le cose di questo mondo un giorno non ci saranno più, e non importa quanta voglia avremo di andare: non si potrà più andare. E allora in questa vita voglio accumulare tantissimi ricordi.

Quizá sea imposible desde el principio clasificar una existencia como una u otra. La vida no hace más que fluir imparable, guardándonos toda clase de sabores.

Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

El pavor que infunde el río es el pavor y la inmensidad inescrutable que suscita el fluir del tiempo

L'unica cosa di cui ho paura è il passare del tempo, il ramo del salice accarezzato dal sole che un attimo dopo è scosso da un tifone, il ciliegio in fiore che perde tutti i suoi petali.

When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

My feelings for you...are like the stillness of the sand...they make no sound...as they're washed away.

The diamond cannot love the flower, for the flower lives only a day, then fades and dies. You are a diamond now." " The flower dies," Jenny said softly, "having lived. The diamond will never do either.

Old Hamlet asks, "What is this quintessence of dust?" Dust it's a dry word, with Saharas of space between each letter.

The fire dies, the candle is eaten by its weak fluttering flame.

The conversation did not go very well and I began telling him about the people with their trays in the great cafeteria and suggesting that it would have done us more good to go there to be put in mind of our own mortality.

The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away quietly after having lived as fully as one can, doing the very best one can with the gifts one has been given.

É revigorante ser lembrado, de vez em quando, de que, no mundo, não somos mais que partículas que podem ser varridas com a maior facilidade.

Money was evil, beauty vain, and both were transitory. Ambition was pride, desire for gain was avarice, desire of the flesh was lust, desire for honor, even for knowledge and beauty, was vainglory. Insofar as these diverted man from seeking the life of the spirit, they were sinful.

My moments are numbered; and if I would expose him with my dying sigh, I must not sentimentalize over my own decay.

The pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.

Spring passes and the birds cry out—tears in the eyes of fishes

Furi ika ya! Kawaza tobikomu Mizo no oto

Then is Now. The star you steer by is gone,its tremulous thread spun in the hurricanespider floss on my cheek; light from the zenithspun when the slowworm lay in her lapfifty years ago.

Soon we will plunge into the cold darkness; Farewell, vivid brightness of our too-short summers!

Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement?

Understand that friends come and go. But a precious few, who should hold on.