Quotes About Transience

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

A chama da vida arde por um tempo e então se apaga. As sepulturas aguardam pacientemente a hora de serem ocupadas. A morte é o fim de toda a vida. Viver é se remexer constantemente em um túmulo. As coisas vivem e morrem. Às vezes vivem bem, e às vezes mal, mas sempre morrem, e a morte é aquilo que reduz todas as coisas ao menor denominador comum.

out the window onto the freeway, where it was run over several hundred times in the next hour or so, before

George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.

The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all

If only I wouldn't take this book so seriously. It is just a book after all, and a book is very dead in a very short time. And I'll be dead in a very short time too. So the hell with it. Let's slow down, not in pace or wordage but in nerves.

You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds he will lie beneath what he now stands on, dead as those insects whose sound he no longer hears, and the grass will go on growing, wild and blind.

How many more, I must ask myself, such perfect ends of Augusts will I witness?

All this saving a child does! At one point I even saved the box scores of an entire baseball season, both leagues, since Philadelphia played, haplessly, in both. How precious each scrap of the world appears, in our first years' experience of it! Slowly we realize that it is all disposable, including ourselves.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Rabbit realised the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporary arrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of money. You just passed through, and they milked you for what you were worth, mostly when you were young and gullible.

Kjærleiken er den ande som gjer at vi finst til Kjærleiken er den vande som vil og ikkje vil Kjærleiken er ei lykke og han er sorga di, han går der bak eit stykke og så går han forbi Kjærleiken er som lyset, det kjem og det forsvinn Kjærleiken er det gyset som seier tap og vinn

there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything...

By grounding yourself in mindfulness early in the morning, you are reminding yourself that things are always changing, that good and bad things come and go, and that it is possible to embody a perspective of of constancy, wisdom, and inner peace as you face any conditions that present themselves.

Can we simply address what it means to be human? What is available to us in this brief moment when the universe lifts up in the form of a human sentient body and being and we live out our seventy, eighty, or ninety years (if that) and then dissolve back into the undifferentiated ocean of potential?

The Tibetans sometimes describe thoughts as writing on water, in essence empty, insubstantial, and transient.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

In this world, there is something that cannot be forced upon. Do you know what it is? Things like fate, regardless of how hard you tried to grab, you cant seem to grab hold of it. And even if you grab hold of it, it would not stay in your hands forever

Over time you come to realize that not everyone who walks on your path is meant to stay on it, some people are meant to be on your journey but not at your destination.

Life is only precious because it ends.

If life on earth is temporary , What makes you think that your problems are permanent ?

Such is life... To live, to die... To be but a ripple in the waters of time.... And when the ripples do finally clear... As does the truth of your existence... Disappear.

Nothing is interminable - All is but transient, for even set stone can be broken.