Quotes About Transience

Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake. Beauty by mistake- the final phase in the history of beauty.

He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist.

It takes so little, a tiny puff of air, for things to shift imperceptibly and whatever it was that a man was ready to lay down his life for a few seconds earlier, seems suddenly to be sheer nonsense

To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers.

mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.

the sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content

Una belleza no intencional. Sí. También podría decirse: la belleza como error. Antes de que la belleza desaparezca por completo del mundo, existirá aún durante un tiempo como error. La belleza como error es la última fase de la historia de la belleza.

Mendengarkan warta berita sama saja dengan menghisap sebatang rokok yang segera kita buang jika habis.

DehÅŸet bir ÅŸoktur, mutlak bir körleÅŸmenin zaman?. DehÅŸette en ufak güzellik yoktur. Bütün görebildiÄŸimiz bizi bekleyen bir olay?n gelip geçici ?????d?r. Öte yandan, hüzün olacaklar? bildiÄŸimizi varsayan bir tav?rd?r." Varolman?n Dayan?lmaz HafifliÄŸi

But no carnival can go on for ever.

La historia es igual de leve que una vida humana singular, insoportablemente leve, leve como una pluma, como el polvo que flota, como aquello que mañana ya no existirá.

Cómo es posible condenar algo fugaz?

Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while as a mistake.

la ilusión que nos hace considerar la situación de nuestra vida como un simple decorado, una circunstancia contingente e intercambiable por la que transita nuestro 'yo', independiente y constante.

Smrt ima dva vida: ona je nebivanje, ali i strašna stvarna okolnost leša. [...] Biti leš, to je nepodnošljiva uvreda. Još prije nekoliko sekundi biti ljudsko bi?e koje je branilo svoj stid, posve?enost golotinje i intimitet, a zatim tek sekunda smrti da bi naše tijelo odjednom bilo na raspolaganju bilo kome, da ga se može razgolititi, razrezati, pregledavati mu utrobu gadljivo za?epljena nosa zbog njezinog smrada, gurnuti u hladnjak ili u vatru.

É verdade que os cupins da redução desde sempre atacam a vida humana: até o maior amor acaba se reduzindo a um esqueleto de lembranças raquíticas.

For the very notion of homeland, with all its emotional power, is bound up with the relative brevity of our life, which allows us too little time to become attached to some other country, to other countries, to other languages.

Mas neste mundo nada dura muito tempo e, por detrás das ondas decrescentes do alívio, subia a voz ténue do desgosto

the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear [...] without the mitigating circumstances of their transitory nature

Antes de que se nos olvide, seremos convertidos en kitsch. El kitsch es una estación de paso entre el ser y el olvido.

Everyone has trouble accepting the fact he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late.

Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake.

Diciamo quindi che l'idea dell'eterno ritorno indica una prospettiva dalla quale le cose appaiono in maniera diversa da come noi le conosciamo: appaiono prive della circostanza attenuante della loro fugacità.

cuvintele obiÈ™nuite sunt f?cute spre a se stinge de îndat? ce au fost rostite, ele n-au alt scop decât acela de a servi în momentul comunic?rii; ele sunt supuse lucrurilor È™i nu sunt decât însemnul acestora; dar iat? c? aceste cuvinte deveniser? ele însele lucruri È™i nu erau subordonate sau supuse la nimic; nu mai erau destinate comunic?rii imediate È™i dispariÈ›iei rapide, ci d?inuirii.