Quotes About Transience

I don't belong in this world, I am merely a traveller passing through, I repudiate to silence my thought, because they fear my light.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way

Not only the products, even we come with the expiry date

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

As I view the moon I feel the sadness of all things --- this autumn is not for me alone

A brief life burns brightly.

New York in the 1880's was already a city that seemed to have made up its mind that whatever existed was dispensable and replaceable

These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.

Death reminds us that we are nothing.

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

The river rises, flows over its banks and carries us all away, like mayflies floating downstream: they stare at the sun, then all at once there is nothing.

Remember: life is a breath; soon I will vanish from your sight. The eye that looks will not see me; you may search, but I will be gone. Like a cloud fading in the sky, man dissolves into death. He leaves the whole world behind him and never comes home again.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

The grass withers, the flower fades, but Cosmic Ordering stands forever.

Nem?žeme pták?m žalu zabránit, aby nám prolétli životem, ale nemusíme jim dovolit, aby se nám uhnízdili ve vlasech!

What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

This will never come again

There were a lot of them - so many promises washed up like waves on the rocky beach, only to be pulled away just as fast.

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

I can't sleep the first night in a hotel room.

Ian Smith thought his Rhodesia would last 1,000 years: it lasted less than 15.