Quotes About Transience

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don't understand you at all stick around.

What is it about the human face that it should be the most memorable thing in existence and yet its atoms are the quickest to disperse?

It had been so brief a sojourn, not even a full century. He had been a guest in a mansion and he was not ungrateful. He was at once exhausted and refreshed. His stay was ended. Now he must gather up the shabby impedimenta of his mind and body and be on his way again.

Penny's bowels yearned over his son. He gave him something more that his paternity. He found that the child stood wide-eyed and breathless before the miracle of bird and creature, of flower and tree, of wind and rain and sun and moon, as he had always stood. And if, on a soft day in April, the boy had prowled away on his boy's business, he could understand the thing that had drawn him. He understood, too, its briefness.

Power is transient. Power can flow from one person to another. The most powerful person in a room isn't the wealthiest or the one with the most connections. It's the person who believes the strongest, the one who has the most confidence. And, sometimes, it's the person who can make everyone else feel like less of themselves.

Maybe at the beginning. It didn't last long.

With its architectural grandeur, Senator Gore said, our capital would someday "make wonderful ruins.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

I don't accept flowers. I take nothing perishable.

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

To men, women are just city buses. There's another one every five minutes.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.

Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. As low as I you once must be, Prepare yourself and follow me.

A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Love and cherish everything and everyone you have because one day they'll be gone.

Change is a transient reality, once we're willing to make the effort. Stay committed, even at the verge of peril to not give in. We can love each other; the choice is yours and mine.