Quotes About Transience

Everything in life is temporary. So if things are going good, enjoy it because it won't last forever. And if things are going bad, don't worry. It can't last forever either.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Life is a perpetual drunkenness; the pleasure passes, but the headache remains.

We do not own this place, we are just passengers

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

So many faces in and out of my life; some will last, some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and good byes, I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Don't take life too seriously. It's only a temporary condition.

I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

There is nothing certain in a mans life but that he must lose it.

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever, what makes it precious is that it ends.

The harsh truth is that nothing last forever, so when you have it, enjoy it, appreciate it. Don't take it for granted.

Life is transitory it doesn't last forever, but with the time that is given you can find some sort of purpose.

Nobody realizes how delicate a life can be until it's taken.