Quotes About Transience

Le mieux est d'éviter de nouer des relations. Car rien ne dure.

It was very fast, that first time. They were on the couch, and then they were off the couch and it was all over. It was like jumping out the window and landing on the street. A quick ride, just like that.

Twee mensenvlokjes waren we, een kind en zijn moeder, zwevend in het wereldruim, zes volle jaren lang - ze waren in mijn ogen niet meer dan een paar dagen. We waren als een kinderlied, een rijm van daden en van wonderen - totdat heel zacht een zuchtje wind, een vederlichte bries, een wiekslag van een waaier, in de bladeren blies - en het vonnis velde: jij hiernaartoe, hij daarheen - en daarmee was het uit, in honderdduizend scherven.

To use the mind for purposes of pride and aggrandizement is like a gusty wind or a violent storm; it cannot last long.23

For him, poetry was an inverted form of sympathetic magic: what it tries to preserve disappears, — David Jauss, from section 6 of "The Wandering Between Worlds," Black Warrior Review (vol. 23, no. 1, Fall/Winter 1996)

That fire you see can't last. Still, as it burns, it lights everything.

But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust.

However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.

How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways." "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.

All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.

Beauty is fleeting. But the woman who fear God is blissful.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.

Yeah and it's over before you know it It all goes by so fast Yeah the bad nights take forever And the good nights don't ever seem to last

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year, The earth is hell when you leav'st to appear.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.