Quotes About Transience

Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short time. The heart of man cannot remain long in one extremity.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

El exceso del dolor como el exceso de la alegría, es una cosa violenta que dura poco: el corazón del hombre no puede durar mucho en un extremo.

Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;

Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? But where are the snows of years gone by?

Ali junski pljuskovi nisu ništa. Jedva i primetite, jedan sat posle kakve provale oblaka, da je taj lepi plavi dan plakao.

A vida não passa de uma longa perda de tudo o que amamos.

les hommes sont tous condamnés à mort avec des sursis indéfinis.

The stem, when the hand is stretched out to pluck the flower, quivers, and seems at once to shrink back, and present itself. The human body has something of this trepidation at the moment when the mysterious fingers of death are about to gather the soul.

That is, it only becomes problematic when people refuse to let blissful epiphanies remain mostly obscure and evanescent.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

De qué manera tan veloz, tan trágica, transcurría el tiempo! La felicidad era como aquellas nubes que cambiaban de apariencia a cada instante. Brillaban doradas, o se teñían de gris, sin permanecer más que un momento en el mismo estado. Las horas más radiantes pasan de largo veloces, como un capricho o como una broma.

Empty leaves fly with the wind, Empty people fly over time.

Man's life is short and transitory because they devote most of their lives also to what is transient and momentary.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

Now winds are wild, and sere leaves fall; A dying glory mantles all; I sit and watch the tears of rain Steal slowly down the window-pane. The wailing of the Autumn blast Stirs many a dead leaf of the Past Within my soul; I seem to hear The wan lips of the dying year, Mournfully, oh, mournfully, Chant a low, sad melody!

The silence, she thought, was remarkable: a perfect, shimmering thing, and fragile. Like glass, if it shattered, it would never come back together again.

Existe el pasado y existe el futuro», les había dicho a sus hermanos y hermanas no hacía tanto. «El presente no es más que el breve instante que separa uno de otro.»

The books may be immortal, but we are not.

Ye zindagi bhi Kitni choti hai nah K pta hi nahi chalta kab khtam hogyi !!

Ia tak mengerti kenapa banyak sekali teman-temannya buang-buang uang begitu banyak untuk membeli aneka beha dan celana dalam ajaib yang toh akan ditanggalkan juga dalam waktu sekejab.

Kegunaan popcorn hanya sekali: untuk dikunyah dan ditelan. kriuk kriuk, habis.

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!