Quotes About Transience

Life doesn't last, art doesn't last

The life, when we're aware of beauty, is kind of a bittersweet thing, it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with.

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.

Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.

Life in this world is limited. Never be in the least bit afraid!

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.

The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die

Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.

Life is once. Forever.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute.