Quotes About Transience

Thus in the minds of the many does the one ramify and disperse. It does not last, it cannot, it is not immortality. We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

What are living beings, compared to the enduring intensity of mere things?

The high ones die, die. They die. You look up and who's there?

the glory of the next world that will never wear out, while the good things of this world will vanish.

Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.

Hurry, hurry, hurry," she said, for it was dark then, and she knew that we are bound, one to another, in licentious benevolence for only a single day, and that day was nearly over.

He might have been compared to a summer's day, particularly the last hours of one.

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

What hurts the most is getting so attached to someone but then suddenly realize that one day you will have to give them up because everything's temporary, the only thing that lasts forever is the memories!

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Sometimes you just have to accept the fact that some people only enter your life as a temporary happiness.

Dont expect someone to stay sweet forever because even the sweetest candy has an expiration date.

Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will be gone.

What we had was perfect, what we had was true, I loved you completly and so did you, but what we had is now over, its all in the past, I guess I have to admit that good things never last

Theres a difference between waves and your thought...waves come n go back but your thought keep on sweeping my mind...

I wrote our names on a foggy window and watched them fade away...just like we did.

Guess I thought you'd be here forever, another illusion I chose to create, you don't know what you've got till it's gone and I found out just a little too late.

When we trust a person we think that they are with us forever to share our pain and happiness but time reminds us that tasty fruits are only seasonal.

Some people are like clouds,when they disappear, it's a beautiful day.

True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

I quit, I give up, nothing's good enough for anybody else, it see... when I'm all alone it's best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say good-bye. Everything is temporary anyway.

Life is a terminal disease.

It is the people who touch our lives for the shortest time that are the hardest to forget.