Quotes About Transience

In the unlikely event that I make it into heaven, I won't be able to enjoy everlasting bliss because part of the pleasure of happiness is its transience.

I loathe nowheres - airports and bland hotels. I would rather be in an unpleasant, uncomfortable place rather than one just adrift, floating around.

Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to look for their fruits and yet to be unprepared for their fall. Let it be your consolation, then, that God's enemies, however honorable and exalted they may have been, shall nevertheless fade away like the smoke.

I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

I have seen lot of ups and downs in life; I have realised that nothing is permanent in life.

One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.

I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.

Storage problems make neon signs the most ephemeral of commercial arts.

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.

The strange thing about living somewhere for a couple of years and then moving on and not returning is that those locations become ghosts of themselves in your mind.

I decided to let it go. The way I saw it,everything is temporary. Even the biggest stars die. Feelings are more temporary than most things. You just have to wait for them to pass.

Let us quickly be finished with this business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.

This idea comes to me that we're all grass blades on the same lawn. We've grown up together, shoulder to shoulder, under the same sun, drinking the same rain. But you know what happens to grass blades—somebody cuts them down just when they reach their prime.

Nothing lasts," she says, and there's a little crack in her voice. "You think it's going to. You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

everything changes. Snow becomes water. It's beautiful because it changes. Things are fleeting. It felt so beautiful to be part of this weird world in that moment. I felt part of the world again, rather than removed from it. It

Write everything down because it's all very fleeting.

You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.