Quotes About Transience

That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

Life as we know it is a death sentence.

I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.

When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

In the end, living is defined by dying.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

Life is too short because we die.

You are permanent, but this life is not.

There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.

Life is the flash in black heavens.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

Life is an empty dream.

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Gratitude's got a short half-life, Clarice.

Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.