Quotes About Transience

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

L.A. is a kind of a landing place for some people. People are just in and out all the time. People are there for a short time until they get what they need and then they go somewhere else.

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.

Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.

An Oscar is a total honor. It's thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn't really mean anything. It's a moment in time.

That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.

I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

The time on either side of now stands fast.

Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

El hombre es un museo de enfermedades, una residencia de impurezas; llega hoy y mañana ha desaparecido; empieza como barro y acaba como hedor (...)

It looks like its impossible to leave a lasting trace here.

She laughed and he felt her breath, and he thought about that warmness, how people were warm like that, from inside to out; how it could hit you and disappear, then back again, and nothing was ever permanent--