Quotes About Transience

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

If you reflect on death, you find the vanity of life.

… there is no permanence or guarantee in this life.

Do not forget you will never live forever.

The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.

We pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.

The world hast fast to pass away- And cannot comprehend the things that are promised to the righteous in time to come: for this world is full of unrighteousness and infirmities.

The sand in the hour glass isn't meant to stick together. It will flow exactly same today, how it did ten years back. That's how much reliable that stuff is. The stuff that can be consistent.

Starting to believe Life is just a sigh of Death.

Never plan to make this world your permanent abode, for it is temporal for all, rather permanent your ideas & purpose here.

It is better to be a star for one day than a moon for a lifetime.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?

Live life daringly. In one moment in time, you will be gone.

Knowing one day, I will be gone, makes me live fuller life.

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor.

I am taking each game as it comes, enjoying it and taking that little bit of extra time to look around a full stadium, because I know it's not going to last forever. But I will try and make it last as long as possible.

I am not sure what my stand on lasting really is.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.

For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.