Quotes About Transience

Je ne vais jamais au lit sans réfléchir que le lendemain peut-être (si jeune que je sois) je ne serai plus là...; et pourtant personne, de tous ceux qui me connaissent, ne peut dire que je sois chagrin ou triste dans ma conversation...

A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.

How can you bring more light to the ephemeras who are plunged into the fire, because they have already had the light of the fire then.

Buddhism teaches us to recognize these cycles of impermanence and have the courage to accept them.

Se joac? aerul de-a amintirea: duce cu el toate zgomotele ?i las?-n urm? numai oglinzi de t?cere s? ne putem privi anii ce s-au dus.

We die, governments change, ideologies evolve, borders disappear, rivers merge, islands sink, trees rot, bones dissolve, even nature expires one day. But the universe exists, with stars or without stars, with air or without air, infinitely and unimaginably beyond man. I know that the infinite world is there beyond trivial ideologies or politics. And we only have one life to live.

I watched him walking away, sweater over his shoulders, bag in hand, until he was no more than a tiny point in the distance. I watched, without so much as blinking, and I realized how utterly lonely I was. But all my staring couldn't prevent that distant point from vanishing like a snowflake dissolving in the sunlight.

The real me is disappearing as we speak. Slowly but surely being sucked into thin air.

Somewhere it is written that I was born to leave my home, to constantly leave, each time leaving a part of me behind.

In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.

It's our version of "me" that causes us the most stress and heartache. Which is why it comes as a relief to discover that this version is as transient as a cloud in the sky. Focus on the cloud and the result is uncertain. Focus on the sky and we discover clarity.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Then ------ dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever.

Then Emma Mayhew dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever

but I've been here in Wolverhampton for two days now and that's felt pretty eternal (though I can reveal that the Pizza Hut

Who's he seeing now then?" "No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long.

That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas.

Please protect me through the dangers and confusion of my transient life on earth, ensuring that in all things I strive for eternal life in Heaven.

I've seen it before. Been here before. Played or managed here, six or seven times in six or seven years. Always a visitor, always away.

Steel on the skyline Sky made of glass Made for a real world All things must pass Ooo Waiting for something Looking for someone Is there no reason?

I fear the good because it will go away … I fear the bad because I'm too weak to withstand it.

The highest things are always the first to go. The basic things, the animal things, are preserved the longest. The high always falls. The low can't fall.

When we start to realize that we're not going to be here forever, we become aware that it's not clear what it meant to be here at all.

What is life?" he mused. "It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.