Quotes About Transience

The sublime Academy Award winning actor, Halle Berry, told a group of reporters in London in 2004 when she was promoting Cat Woman, "Being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory".

My life flies away like a dream: Why should I stay behind?

You don't understand how fragile life is. You don't realize that the thread breaks between one moment and the next.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.

You never know when this can be gone. It's sad to say, but with all the injuries around the league, it can be gone in a blink of an eye.

If you're in the NFL for more than five minutes you see that you can be here today and gone tomorrow. That's why I played the way I did. I think that's why I worked hard to not miss a game, fight through injuries and all that stuff because when it's gone, it's gone.

Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.

All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days.

Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera.... London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera....

I am an eternal spirit and the things I make are but ephemera, yet I endure: Yea, and the little earth crumbles beneath our feet and we endure.

Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

Here we are! Shooting stars. Shooting stars? They burn. Fleeting glimpse. We become human as we fall.

De lo que ya no existe se habla con indiferencia o con frialdad; pero yo hablo con dolor, porque hablo antes que deje de existir y sabiendo que dejará de existir. Recuérdese cómo lo afirmé.

SOON IT WILL BE SAID OF YOU WHAT IS NOW SAID OF US: THEY DIED! Macabre and trivial. And how people fight against returning to the planet the atoms they've borrowed.

Ante mis ojos, inútilmente abiertos, se extiende la noche profunda, la noche vacía, el negro definitivo donde todo lo que alienta, tarde o temprano, se deshace.

Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.

Todo, todo se queda atrás, la siniestra vejez y la plenitud irrisoria.

Y donde está prohibido todo nada está. Todo es nada y nada es todo y todo pasa, señor, todo cambia, la ciudad, el país, el idioma.

La felicidad es pasajera, la desdicha recurrente.

La felicidad también existe en el presente, en el aquí y ahora del efímero momento que se va volando rápido, sin dar tiempo siquiera de ponerse la mano en el corazón para sentir que sí, que así es, que se es feliz.

la fugacidad de la vida humana a mi no me inquieta; me inquieta la fugacidad de la muerte: esta prisa que tienen aquí para olvidar. El muerto más importante lo borra el siguiente partido de fútbol…

After her husband died, she went away to live with her eldest son, and the round house shared the fate of Sally's. Where it stood is now a ploughed field. The husband's sacrifices, the wife's romance, are as though they had never been - 'melted into air, into thin air.