Quotes About Transience

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

We're here for such a short period of time.

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?

In L.A relationships don't last. You go on a vacation and break up by the time you come home. Thank God for one-hour photo, so you can see your vacation photos while you're still in the relationship.

Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.

The bird of time has but a little way To flutter - and the bird is on the wing.

Whatever time is giving us, it will take everything back!

For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

TimeYou were the oneI wanted mostto stay.But time could notbe kept at bay.The more it goes, the more it's gone—the more it takes away.

I care not that this moment's lot was thin and sparsely dealt all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt.

Only fools listen to their hearts. Only fools get attached. We wanderers get in and get out just in time.

And a moment that ought to have lasted for everHas come and gone before I knew.

Great news is that time is constant and anyone can catch it anytime, but the worst news is that time is transient, and it will not be available to you the next time.

Some won't stay but thank them for stopping by.

Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time.

The magnitude of any one day is compromised by its passing quickly into the next, a mere moment in time which soon fades into the collective memory of our past.

Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.