Quotes About Transience

Siente una especie de dolor en el pecho, intenso pero placentero. Es como si hubiera una herida, pero una herida leve, una marca en la piel que quieres acariciar, reconocer, disfrutarla por todo lo que significa para ti. Ahora que aún está, porque es posible que, pronto, desaparezca.

Nothing lasts forever, not even the horrors in this life.

The great measure of human maturation is the increasing understanding that we move through life in the blink of an eye; that we are not long with the privilege of having eyes to see, ears to hear, a voice with which to speak and arms to put round a loved one; that we are simply passing through.

What I feel is the momentary shock of realizing that most of the wood, metal and plastic fixtures, the sinks, lampshades, the shower stall, and even the drinking cups will all outlive me if my body follows the same progression that this tiny invisible-to-the-eye virus has initiated.

My eyes have always been advertisements for an early death.

life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

Tutto passa. Questa è la sola e unica cosa che a parer mio s'avvicini alla verità, nella società degli esseri umani, dove ho dimorato sin oggi come in un inferno rovente. Tutto passa.

None of your husbands ever stuck around long enough for you to tell. You change marital partners like the rest of us change underwear," Mary Alice retorted.

If it's not gonna matter tomorrow, it shouldn't matter today.

Sparks are warm while they last.

See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away.

Touch a day you will never see.

We all come and go. This universe is staying here with endless joy of welcoming and an infinite sadness of farewell.

Do not let the transient bitterness of the journey steal happiness from your life.

Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious.

Life is magnificent and vivacious, but it is also fugacious.

Life is transient and ephemeral so dance in your own way.

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

the most transient and trivial of infatuations lack any real cause, and that's even truer of feelings that go far deeper, infinitely deeper than that.

todo es cada vez más veloz, menos duradero, y se da de baja y se archiva más pronto, y nuestro pasado se hace cada vez más denso y amontonado y nutrido porque se decreta —y aun llega a creerse— que el ayer es ya caduco y el anteayer sólo historia, e inmemorial lo de hace un año.

todo viaja hacia su difuminación lentamente nada más ocurrir y hasta mientras acontece

todo viaja lentamente hacia su difuminación en medio de nuestras aceleraciones inútiles y nuestros retrasos ficticios, y sólo la última vez es la última.

Es intolerable que las personas que conocemos se conviertan en pasado. Lo más intolerable es que se convierta en pasado quien uno recuerda como futuro.

A paz, infelizmente, é sempre apenas aparente, e transitória, um fingimento.