Quotes About Transience

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Temporary things can not give you the permanent results

It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.

Quién está arriba y quién está abajo va a importar cada vez menos en un mundo en el que los que llegan a la cima no permanecen mucho tiempo en ella y cada vez pueden hacer menos cosas con el poder que tienen.

conversations each year with fellow participants confirmed my hunch: the powerful are experiencing increasingly greater limits on their power. The reactions to my probing always pointed in the same direction: power is becoming more feeble, transient, and constrained.

Las respuestas a mis preguntas siempre han ido en la misma dirección: el poder es cada vez más débil, más transitorio, más limitado.

Christine had wanted to continue the conversation where she was, with the unappetising tray of dressings balanced on her hip. The most interesting things never cropped up when you were sitting comfortably in chairs. It was always in transient places like halls or staircases or bathroom doorways that the really important things started to be said and you had to discuss them then and there, because the mood was lost if you moved away to a more suitable place.

Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits

When people die, you always hear the expression, "You can't take it with you.

En todas partes el hombre ha tomado conciencia de sí mismo como un animal de tránsito y lucha desesperadamente por afirmar su derecho a lo mejor del mundo durante el breve período que habita en él.

O homem deseja muitas coisas e luta por adquiri-las, crendo que sua posse lhe trará felicidade. Isso o conduz, inevitavelmente, a decepções e sofrimentos. A pessoa prudente, que sabe o que é e aquilo de que realmente necessita, evita todas as perturbações, pois está buscando o real e não coisas efêmeras.

understanding the nature of things just as they are. Why? Because: So you should view all of the fleeting worlds: A star at dawn, a bubble in the stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud; A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

There is much to be said for cherry blossoms, but they seem so flighty. They are so quick to run off and leave you. And then just when your regrets are the strongest the wisteria comes into bloom, and it blooms on into the summer. There is nothing quite like it. Even the color is somehow companionable and inviting.

Philosophy is the prelude to death.

We die exactly as much as the world ceases to be needed.

Compared to the universe, we are like a drop of water in the ocean. We come and pass unnoticed; just like a chilly wind.

Every birth is followed by death, just as every pleasure is also followed by pain.

How we wish we could breathe forever. But death, the destroyer of pleasure is waiting to take it away from us. Maybe death is the price of life. Isn't death painful because life is always beautiful?

People will cheat you because they've found a great replacement. Same thing for trust, nothing is complete or eternal in this world.

Really life is a short trip. We are all passengers, there is no rest even after death.

The present is short lived. Difficult to define it without disturbing the past and the future events.

The rotation of the world indicates that no one or nothing can last forever in physical form; only the spiritual is infinite.

You are offered a chance to live and enjoy yourself in this world, but sooner or later, death will come knocking on your door.

La belleza, como la justicia, se nos escurre entre los dedos. Fotografiamos una puesta de sol, pero todo lo que conseguimos es el recuerdo del momento, no el instante en sí.