Quotes About Transience

Nothing is of a permanent nature.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same

...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one tries to get hold of it.

The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality.

The people in our life is like the mountain and the river. Some people will stay as others will leave. Some will travel away and make their way back to you.

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.

The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.

Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.

Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.

Everything is temporary but the power of Love is Infinite because it is the space, it is Everything.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Life is sweet, life is also very short.

We're beings toward death, we're … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

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

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

There is no illusion in awaken mind, because everything is perceived as impermanent and transient.

The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a loving heart is everlasting.

All of the stories, all of the beauty, all of the songs and events of this life will vanish in the ocean of time.

Every moment that we live our life, we live for the moment and then the moment dies.

This world is unreal and ever-changing. Only an optimist with optimum love can adjust and grow with joy.