Quotes About Transience

I stopped walking and looked hard at this grand woman who had once been a girlhood friend. We had not known each other very long, but our friendship had been intense and intimate for all its brevity.

This was a station, a limbo-no storehouse, but a refuse heap.

Nothing could be more perfect than this moment, but all too soon it is gone, burning out among the stars.

Leila felt as if he was a fluid in her hands, dripping away.

I realised that day that when the animation of the person we were is stripped out of the vessel we have used to pilot our way through life, it leaves little more than an echo or a shadow in the physical world.

What is born 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. The only thing we really have is nowness, now.

I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.

For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

As an actor, you know every job you have is going to end someday. That's not so much different than the rest of the world; we just don't have illusions about it.

Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough.

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory."--Fidelis O Mkparu

Moments like these are fleeting, and we have to grab onto them while we can. From the instant I saw you, I wanted to give you my heart. But today I'll settle for giving you a flower.

Some people are like swings...They give us an exciting thing to do for a while..Thereafter leave us alone, dizzy and not very far ahead in life...

How can it be that Jane is with me, and says she loves me? Will she not depart as suddenly as she came? To-morrow, I fear I shall find her no more.

You will not be here--I shall not be here--much lo

We all live but a hundred years. When I am with you, I live it in a matter of days.

... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through

I saw her disappear from my life like a star that fades into obscurity behind a veil of clouds.

It's the same old story. A man came like the beautiful wind, left like a destructive storm.

Each moment is just that... a moment. Whether good or bad it will pass to the next. Forward to the next and create a wonderful life.

People will come in your life and bring instant joy like a rainbow or wreak havoc like a hurricane. And once their duty is done the presence will away leaving you to live alone.

Åžtiu c? exist? un singur suflet, r?sfrânt în mii de atitudini trec?toare.

That to truly know happiness is to know the fleeting nature of everything, joy, pain, safety and happiness itself.