Quotes About Transience

when the tears of a whole generation are assembled they will only fill a coffee cup just because they evaporate doesn't mean life has heat

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Que todo termina en un instante Planatera doloroso

Cerul înstelat este ce cel mai sincer prieten din via??; este mereu acolo, î?i d? întotdeauna pace, î?i aminte?te mereu c? nelini?tea ta, îndoiala ta, durerile tale sunt nimicuri trec?toare. Universul este ?i va r?mâne de neclintit. Când tragem linie, opiniile noastre, luptele noastre, suferin?ele noastre nu sunt a?a de importante ?i de unice.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness.

same as always. Beauty will fade. Prosperity will end. Singing will turn to lamentations. Old age will follow youth, and sickness will replace health. As soon as you are born, death is waiting, inevitable as nightfall. The rising tide of evil will swallow hope and truth and light until only the void remains.

For nothing is truly complete until the day it is finally destroyed.

It is strange," the man said. "People get such a small amount of time. So many I've known say it—as soon as you feel you're getting a handle on things, the day is done, the night falls, and the light goes out.

The life of a person is more than the chaos of its passing.

The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived.

Death comes, they whispered. Death comes to all. But life comes first. Cherish it.

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

lest she be blown away by a capricious wind.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

The world that our senses and our consciousness habitually acquaint us with is now nothing more than the shadow of itself; and it is cold like death.

The world grew cheap, as worlds must.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

We get only transient and partial glimpses of the beauty of the world. Standing at the right angle, we are dazzled by the colors of the rainbow in colorless ice. From the right point of view, every storm and every drop in it is a rainbow.

The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed.

By the mood of my mind, I suddenly felt dissuaded from continuing my walk, but I observed at the same instant that the shadow of a cloud was passing over the spot on which I stood, though it was of small extent, which, if it had no connection with my mood, at any rate suggested how transient and little to be regarded that mood was.

Live at home like a traveler.

Fix not thy heart on that which is transitory; for the Dijlah, or Tigris, will continue to flow through Bagdad after the race of caliphs is extinct: if thy hand has plenty, be liberal as the date tree; but if it affords nothing to give away, be an azad, or free man, like the cypress.

La inmensa mayoría son hombres de sociedad. Viven en la superficie, les interesa lo transitorio y lo breve. Son como madera de deriva en al riada. Sólo piden las novedades: la espuma y la cochambre del mar eterno.