Quotes About Transience

I learned years ago that love could be temporary and still be love.

In loving life you love what can't survive.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.

Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!

A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

i hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

is this fragile love/ a way/ to say/ goodbye

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

You can get some sense of the immaterial quality of clouds by strolling through fog—which is, after all, nothing more than a cloud that lacks the will to fly.