Quotes About Transience

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, grief eventually passed.

Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I've known that since the very first time.

If I blink she'll disappear, " he told her. She looked at him and said, "Maybe that is the best thing for you.

Earthly possessions are transient and ephemeral. Giving away love creates ripples that last for some time.

¡Los suspiros son aire y van al aire!¡Las lágrimas son agua y van al mar!Dime, mujer, cuando el amor se olvida¿sabes tú adónde va?

There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world, " he says softly.

Be that fragnance which fades in breezes of cold air but always gives intense smell.

Flowers wither knowing that you exist.

It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it.

We have so much to learn from a fallen teardrop which is wiped away from our cheek…never to be felt again

It's good to be vanished and remembered than to remain and become forgetful.

Not every relationship is meant to last. Some are there to create an impact on your life. Relationships that last three months are just as important as ones that last a lifetime.

Theories are superfragile; they come and go, then come and go, then come and go again;

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

Little, impalpable worlds, were those soap-bubbles, with the big world depicted, in hues bright as imagination, on the nothing of their surface.

The grass of many years has sprung up and withered on that grave, the burial-stone is mossgrown, and good Mr. Hooper's face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the black veil.

But I never considered it as other than a transitory life.

No encuentro nada tan singular en la vida como el hecho de que todo parece perder su substancia en el instante en que uno va a tocarlo.

In this world there are people who prefer beauty after it's gone away or the dregs of a prosperity depleted.

I can't destroy things so beautiful. Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

All I'm saying is that, unless you're immortal, nothing can really belong to you. The best you can hope for is to hold something for a while, but in the end you've got to give it back.

Ils rient et parlent de choses auxquelles je ne comprends rien et je reste figé au milieu. Ils m'admirent, mais seulement comme on admire une chose dont on sait qu'elle est sur le point de disparaître.