Quotes About Transience

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.

Stardom's transitory. Nothing really changes except people's attitudes.

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.

It was at that moment, that moment right before my certain death, that I finally realized that nothing done in selfish or vain ambition will ever last. Anything that you do solely for yourself, will rot away, decompose, turn to dust and blow away at the moment of your passing.

Yes I don't like to live here,' she said, more to herself than me. Then she turned toward me: 'But if I have learned anything from my life, it's that since I don't belong anywhere, only the movement matters.

I'm forever yours, temporarily.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny

?ó là m?t câu h?i ph?c t?p, mà ??i ng??i thì ng?n ng?i.

But, in fact, impermanence is like some of the people we meet in life—difficult and disturbing at first, but on deeper acquaintance far friendlier and less unnerving than we could have imagined.

I shall never forget when Dudjom Rinpoche, in a moment of intimacy, leaned toward me and said in his soft, hoarse, slightly high-pitched voice: "You know, don't you, that actually all these things around us go away, just go away . . ." With

Taking impermanence truly to heart is to be slowly freed from the idea of grasping, from our flawed and destructive view of permanence, from the false passion for security on which we have built everything.

You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time.

Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.

thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative.

will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, rushing by like a torrent down a steep mountain.

I ask myself often: "Why is it that everything changes?" And only one answer comes back to me: That is how life is. Nothing, nothing at all, has any lasting character. The Buddha said: This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

Milarepa sang: When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force Like a stroke of lightning. When involved in worldly things, You never think of death's approach; Quick it comes like thunder Crashing round your head.

The Buddha said: This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

Transient forms sparkle in and out of existence, creating a never-ending, forever newly created reality.

Though she'd try to do otherwise, she had never been able to stop cluttering her present with her past. Now somebody she didn't know would pack her treasures into plastic bags and carry them away. A life, at its end, is a pile of cloth and paper, and goods that can be bagged and labelled. None of the best things - the voice and the laugh, the tilt of the head, the things seen and felt and spoken - are allowed to stay behind.

The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That's the way life is.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech.The second best is to have seen the lightAnd then to go back quickly whence we came.