Quotes About Transience

my love was always woven with leaving

we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been

It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.

Time has wings it is flying but it has no shape, no colour, no dimension so it is invisible.

In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.

Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

Death may call any moment. Every moment, everyone is nearing death.

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.