Quotes About Transience

Night will fall on all of us and the carriage will arrive. I enjoy the breeze given to me and the soul given to me to enjoy it and I ask no more questions, look no further.

The things we achieve, whether empires or sentences, have (because they've been achieved) that fatal defect of real things: the fact they're perishable.

I pass times, I pass silences; formless worlds pass by me.

I, however, who in this transitory life am nothing, can enjoy the thought of the future reading this very page, since I do actually write it; I can take pride – like a father in his son – in the fame I will have, since at least I have something that could bring me fame.

Patsai gyvenimas yra mirimas, nes n?ra n? dienos, kuri jo nedaryt? viena diena trumpesnio.

Considero a vida uma estalagem onde tenho que me demorar até que chegue a diligência do abismo.

The beauty of ruins? That they're no longer good for anything.

Nothing of nothing remains. We're nothing. In the sun and air we put off briefly The unbreathable darkness of damp earth Whose weight we'll have to bear— Postponed corpses that procreate. Laws passed, statues seen, odes finished— All have their grave. If we, heaps of flesh Made sanguine by an inner sun, Must set, then why not they? We're tales telling tales, nothing…

Neste momento vem-me uma vaga saudade E um vago desejo plácido Que aparece e desaparece.   Também às vezes, à flor dos ribeiros, Formam-se bolhas na água Que nascem e se desmancham E não têm sentido nenhum Salvo serem bolhas de água Que nascem e se desmancham.

Tudo isto é quanto a vida vale: homens e mulheres, amores supostos e vaidades factícias, subterfúgios da digestão e do esquecimento, gente remexendo-se, como bichos quando se levanta uma pedra, sob o grande pedregulho abstrato do céu azul sem sentido.

I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up.

The everyday external things of the one who died

Pero el sufrimiento pasa. Si la vida, que es todo, pasa, por qué no han de pasar el amor y el dolor y todas las demás cosas, que no son más que partes de la vida.

I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.

There is a certain amount of commerce in the film industry in as much as you have value, and for a moment, your value goes up, then it all disappears again.

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

We should never forget the inevitable, as we will lose everything eventually. So, why fret over any kind of security? The idea is to just fly and experience it all while it lasts.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

Consider misunderstood loss as a derailment. When you understand impermanence, when you understand that change is truly the only constant in a space-time continuum, then you understand that such losses come and go.