Quotes About Transience

Vogliamo ora congedarci dal nostro vecchio amico in uno di quei rari momenti di felicità perfetta, dei quali, a ben saperli cercare, qualcuno di trova sempre che valga ad allineare la nostra transitoria esistenza terrena. Esistono sulla terra le ombre nere, ma per contrasto le zone luminose appaiono ancora più chiare.

Like man in the abstract, he is here to-day and gone to-morrow—but, very unlike man indeed, he is here again the next day.

The sands are the children's great resort. They cluster there, like ants: so busy burying their particular friends, and making castles with infinite labour which the next tide overthrows, that it is curious to consider how their play, to the music of the sea, foreshadows the realities of their after lives.

Maybe that's the way of things, too. That the more beautiful a thing is, the shorter it seems to last. People now less than flowers

Maybe that's the way of things, too. That the more beautiful a thing is, the shorter it seems to last. People no less than flowers.

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

Life winks as it passes me by and is gone before my own blink of eye.

Some things in our lives are as constant as the sun and others as fleeting as a shooting star. But we are thankful for all light that brightens our paths.

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....

I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long.

We are all fuel. We are born, and we burn, some of us more quickly than others. There are different kinds of combustion. But not to burn, never to catch fire at all, that would be the sad life, wouldn't it?

Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. As low as I you once must be, Prepare yourself and follow me.

Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension.

Et que j'aime ô saison que j'aime tes rumeurs Les fruits tombant sans qu'on les cueille Le vent et la forêt qui pleurent Toutes leurs larmes en automne feuille à feuille Les feuilles Qu'on foule Un train Qui roule La vie S'écoule

El vuelo de un pájaro es efímero. Solo va de una rama a otra, pero desde esa otra rama, descubre un mundo nuevo».

Los fantasmas existen. Es todo lo que sé. Se desvanecen, junto con el pasado, como la niebla en plena luz del día… a su paso, dejan enseñanzas simbólicas. Certezas simbólicas.

Non per molto! Non sarei stato più lo zimbello di un goffo Fato, privo di scopo, che non sapeva nemmeno fare il suo disgustoso lavoro... che mi innalzava in cielo solo per precipitarmi nel sudicio stagno puzzolente dello scoraggiamento, e intanto suonava la sua stupida canzone che conoscevo benissimo... che tutti i bambini conoscevano... tutti i cani randagi perfino... che nulla dura sulla terra... che tutto passa... tutto...

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Nada hay más delicado ni más temible que las manos de los chiquillos: en ellas el juguete no puede durar mucho.

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?

When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his placid mind, but to pay attention to the pace of things. Each has its own rhythm: the nap of a dog, the procession of the equinoxes, the dances of Lydia, the majestically slow beat of the drums at Dodona, the swift runners at Olympia.

The light is dying, as all light must.

breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.