Quotes About Transience

This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.

Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger.

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...

Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!