Quotes About Transience

like a little thorn that catches for a moment on a traveler's sleeve, only to pull out when the traveler walks on.

we take for lovers or husbands. You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll understand it later: men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll understand it later: men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

Everyone thinks at some time or other that in a hundred years no one now alive will be on earth - the overwhelming force will sweep the place clean.

Nothing lasts, and yet nothing passes, either. And nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

Sembrava non capire o, anche in un momento di stanchezza, non ammettere che avere dei limiti non era poi una cosa così vergognosa, e che lui stesso non era una casa di pietra di centosettant'anni, il cui peso gravasse su imperturbabili travi di quercia: che era, insomma, qualcosa di più transitorio e misterioso.

We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.

No one ever gets out of this life alive.

Siamo tutti foglie, amico mio. La nostra vita paragonata a quella delle montagne e a quella del mare è niente, qualche battito del cuore e via. Niente di ciò che noi costruiamo dura in eterno.

He told himself he had never felt so happy, and he felt a sort of ache that this was happening and would never happen again in just this way no matter how long he lived.

Nothing lasts forever. Not even the universe. What

The calamities we experience here are only temporary phenomena. Each disaster reminds us that a disaster-free eternity

He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

I love the vagueness of words that involve time.

Elijah is overwhelmed by the sheer fact of all the people who have walked over this very spot. As he watches Nikes and loafers glide past, he tries to fathom the feet of centuries ago. A person could stay in this same place his whole life and meet millions of people from all over the world. But instead, everyone moves on, and meets no one.

Let's stay on this song, before it turns to something else, before it switches to a commercial. Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

This is the nice note, I can't help thinking. But just like a sound, as soon as the note hits the air, it begins to fade.

like the airwaves were taking a little longer to get here, so we could live in yesterday a little longer, even if it felt wrong.

I don't think anything can stay, he tells me. Good or bad. So I think the important part is to not get caught up in worrying about whether something will stay, and instead enjoy it for the time it's here.

I think the important part is to not get caught up in worrying about whether something will stay, and instead enjoy it for the time it's here.

I never want to stay. I'm always ready to leave.

I want this to be the sand that stays on my fingers.

The desire to take a moment and make it last forever. The desire to stay like this for much longer than it will really last.

We melt; we tear and rip apart. Membrane, baby. Cellophane. Ain't that some shit.