Quotes About Transience

After all, the cherry blossom blooms every year, but does anyone find it the less lovely for that?

We need everything perfect in a rather temporary life...

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

Sports life is very short.

Tell you now children—you're all gonna die. No hand stamp reentry, no refund, no lie. —Found written on a bathroom stall in Disneyland, June 6th, 1988

It is a strange thing how quickly the body dies. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone—leaving an empty, insignificant vessel in its stead.

All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.

That part won't be hard at all; It's easy to love something when you know it's only for a finite amount of time.

The flowers in the desert which bloomed and died were just different versions of their own small lives.

and for an instant he's alive toward me, a gem of sea of pond in his eye. Then that retreat into himself, which always moved me, as if there were a sideways gravity, in him, toward some vanishing point.

When he grasped her hand, he felt the calluses on her palm. He was thinking about how tough she was, and then she smiled. It was tentative and brief but it touched his heart, and then she was gone. He watched while she disappeared over the hill and then took the box into the kitchen, refilled his coffee and opened the lid. 36%

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.

If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.