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Quotes About Transience

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.
~ Pindar, The Odes
Life is like a snowflake—transient, translucent, adventurous, ephemeral, and beautiful.
~ Debasish Mridha
You came to this world with nothing, and you will leave this world with nothing. There is nothing to gain or lose. You can only touch everyone and everything with your love.
~ Debasish Mridha
It is the uncertainty of life that fills life with magnificence and beauty.
~ Debasish Mridha
Life is too short to enjoy all the beauties of life.
~ Debasish Mridha
We are here on earth for a while.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Like money used wisely, awareness comes & we let it go. Like life, it arises infinitely, to tease & to soothe, to flow through us.
~ Jay Woodman
The brightest candles burn out faster
~ Kaelo Setogang
Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.
~ stephen christian
Life is so transient, finite, and fragile that there is no time to hate anyone.
~ Debasish Mridha
Everything is transient. You must transcend and transform for higher self realization.
~ Debasish Mridha
life is short, before one can catch up with this, time would ring the bell-hey-day is off
~ litymunshi
We're shadows! of naught - living, dying! for what's not.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Life is a dancing dew drop on the tip of a leaf.
~ Debasish Mridha
Life is ephemeral like the journey of a dew drop. We must not forget to glitter.
~ Debasish Mridha
Outer beauty is transient, but the beauty of the soul is everlasting.
~ Debasish Mridha
We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life.
~ Debasish Mridha
What you see with your eyes are transient and ephemeral, What you see through your heart is everlasting and eternal.
~ Debasish Mridha
A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting...
~ Stuti Dhyani
Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.
~ Marie Howe
I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.
~ Dylan Thomas
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.
~ William Butler Yeats
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando