Quotes About Transience

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure / Les jours s'en vont je demeure.

Tutto finisce, tutto passa, l'acqua scorre e il cuore dimentica.

I wouldn't mind a bit seeing all civilization crumble like a mason's scaffolding before the building was finished--

C'était cette rêverie que l'on a sur ce qui ne reviendra plus, la lassitude qui vous prend après chaque fait accompli, cette douleur enfin que vous apportent l'interruption de tout mouvement accoutumé, la cessation brusque d'une vibration prolongée.

Everything I see reminds me that in a few days I shall no longer see it... It's horrible... I shall see nothing more... nothing of what exists... the smallest objects that we use... glasses... plates... beds where people sleep so comfortably... carriages. It's so lovely, going out in a carriage, in the evening... How much I enjoyed all that!

Je voudrais arrêter le temps, arrêter l'heure. Mais elle va, elle va, elle passe, elle me prend de seconde en seconde un peu de moi pour le néant de demain. Et je ne revivrai jamais.

És most a halálomat érzem mindenben, akármit csinálok. Minden lépés a halálhoz visz közelebb, minden mozdulat, minden lehelet annak az utálatos munkáját sietteti. Lélegzés, alvás, evés, munka, álom, minden, amit csinálunk – halál. Egyszóval élni annyi, mint meghalni!

Le baiser frappe comme la foudre, l'amour passe comme un orage, puis la vie, de nouveau, se calme comme le ciel, et recommence ainsi qu'avant. Se souvient- on d'un nuage ?

Comme c'est misérable et trompeur, la vie !.. Il n'y a rien qui dure.

la satisfacción de un momento es la ruina del siguiente.

Was this perhaps life, then?—to have loved one summer in youth and not to have been aware of it until it was over, some sea-wet footprints on the floor and sand in the prints, the fragrance of a woman, soft loving lips in the dusk of a summer night, sea birds; and then nothing more; gone.

Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air? Then all we are left with are stories.

I am dust and my story ends here.

Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.

from the human viewpoint 'sub specie aeternitatis' always means also 'sub specie mortis

Death removes us from both the humanly constituted world and the divine fabric. Since man is transitory, he loses both the world into which he is created as well as the world he created for himself by his love of the world.

Nothing is more transient in our world, less stable and solid, than that form of success which brings fame; nothing comes swifter and more readily than oblivion.

But if the star should set, even while I am penning these lines, be it so; still I can say it has shone, and I have received a rich portion.

A sign read: YOUR STAY HERE IS TOUCH AND GO—TOUCH AND YOU GO.

I went back to Windy's place. We took it slow until we took it fast. It wasn't full-on bliss, but it was awfully sweet. It was around 3:00 A.M. when Windy walked me to the door. Not sure what to say, I stupidly went with "Uh, thank you." "Uh, you're welcome?" We kissed lightly on the lips. It wasn't something that would last, we both knew that, but it was a small, quick delight, and sometimes in this world, there was nothing wrong with that. I

One of the things I've said to teams and players from time to time - especially when things are going well like we had them going in Orlando - is that you better appreciate it and enjoy it because things change quickly in this game. You know, it's tough for guys to really think it will change on them, but it does.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.