Quotes About Transience

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Everything is passing ... enjoy its momentariness

I'm really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself

Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away.

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)

Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone.

I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.