Quotes About Transience

When Laura visited the hamlet just before the war, the roof had fallen in, the yew hedge had run wild and the flowers were gone, excepting one pink rose which was shedding its petals over the ruin. Today, all has gone, and only the limey whiteness of the soil in a corner of a ploughed field is left to show that a cottage once stood there.

Nous sommes fous de vouloir éterniser les sentiments: ils sont aussi passagers que nous. Les choses finissent et nous refusons de l'admettre.

Anh ch? dành t?ng m?ng s?ng c?a mình cho nh?ng kho?nh kh?c b? ?ánh c?p; th?n ch?t ?ã b?t ch??c anh, mang anh ?i th?t quá nhanh chóng.

El amor dura lo que tiene que durar, me da lo mismo.

Cuán extraño es que en esos principios de la vida donde se nos concede un poco de felicidad, ninguna voz nos advierta: «Por muchos años que vivas, no tendrás otra alegría en el mundo que la de aquellas horas. Saboréalas hasta las heces, porque después de esto no quedará nada para ti. Esta primera fuente que has hallado es también la última. Calma tu sed de una vez para siempre; no beberás nunca más»!

And a rose, she lived as roses do, the space of a morn.

The only shadow on my happiness is when I tell myself sometimes that as it's all going well, it can't last, that one day things won't be so good.

We thought ourselves kings of the ages. Now we find that all our civilisation has been nothing but a brief, brightly lit nursery, where we have played with paper crowns and wooden sceptres.

Fear made everyone look very alive in a strange and fragile way, like the last flare of a candle before it dies.

We thought ourselves kings of the ages. Now we find that our civilization has been nothing but a brief, brightly lit nursery, where we have played with paper crowns and wooden scepters. Beyond the door are the dark wastes where Leviathans wrestled for millennia. We are a blink of an eye, a joke amidst a tragedy.

A?açtan dü?mek üzere olan bir yaprak çok ?airanedir. Çünkü ya?am?n özünü gözler önüne serer. Yaln?zca kaybedebilece?imiz ?eyleri severiz.

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. ISAIAH 40:8

Our days on earth are as a shadow. 1 CHRONICLES 29:15

The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling.

To appear for a little time and then vanish away, is the outward biography of all men, a circle of smoke that breaks, a bubble on the stream that bursts, a spark put out by a breath.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

the melancholy of a world eternally under construction...

Dentro de mil años no quedará nada de cuanto se ha escrito en este siglo. Leerán frases sueltas, huellas de mujeres perdidas, fragmentos de niños inmóviles, tus ojos lentos y verdes simplemente no existirán. Será como la Antología Griega, aún más distante, como una playa en invierno para otro asombro y otra indiferencia.

Her momentary awakening can be called a "glimpse of freedom" or a "touch of grace." Many who experience it feel distressed when it passes, but its transience can offer encouragement to keep entering the silence of meditation

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Death is so close, always, a breath away

You have the power . . . to consider time everlasting, to think of the swift change in the parts of each thing, of how brief is the span from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and the void beyond dissolution are equally infinite.

Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely for a few moments.