Quotes About Transience

Here lies one whose name was writ on water.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget...

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---On death

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep?

She dwells with Beauty--Beauty that must die: And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding Adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee mouths sips:

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? The transient pleasures as a vision seem, And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.

Nada es estable en el mundo. El tumulto es vuestra única música.

How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world impress a sense of its natural beauties on us … I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy.

How light Must dreams themselves be; seeing they're more slight Than the mere nothing that engenders them!

Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

Crowns and thrones are all bodies which rise and perish and leave the world as it is.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

The sad moment when you return to your boring and ordinary life after watching an awesome movie.

Used to being forgotten about. My interactions with females never last too long. Friendships, relationships, nothing.

Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come, they go, but they are never forgotten.

You will leave this world with exactly what you came with. Nothing. Enjoy memories. Not materials.

Don't cherish luxury so much that you cant live your life without it, because everything come and go, learn to live not based on materials thing but based on nature of life itself.

Most of the people are only in our lives for THEIR benefit, as soon as your role is done, they move on to someone else like it's nothing.