Quotes About Transience

Fisicamente sei bella" sottolineò Ida, "hai solo un poco di bruttezza dovuta alle preoccupazioni". Angela disse baciandomi: "Succede anche a me: quando mi preoccupo imbruttisco, ma poi passa

Alguna vez te encontrarás frente a tus acciones convertidas en piedras irrevocables como ésa, me dijeron de niña al enseñarme la imagen de un dios, que ahora no recuerdo cuál era. Todo se olvida, pero se olvida sólo por un tiempo. En aquel entonces también las palabras me parecieron de piedra, sólo que de una piedra fluida y cristalina. La piedra se solidificaba al terminar cada palabra, para quedar escrita para siempre en el tiempo

Algún día que venga ya no me va a encontrar se topará nomas con el puro viento. Llegará ese día y cuando llegue, no habrá ni quien le dé una razón. Y pensará que todo a sido mentira.

Leonora is a floating leaf of paper that will combust itself

What a beautiful girl you are," he said, with a kind of ache or awe in his voice, that made me think about how someday I would be old or dead or both, and the transience of all things, of the car, the moonlight, the volcanic rock that was eroding and the stars that were shooting by, made the world seem at once more important and less important, until finally the concept of "important" itself faded away like an expiring firework that glittered against the sky.

When I say to the moment flying...linger a while-thou art so fair" - Faust

Cuando le digo al momento fugaz ... permanece por un tiempo, eres tan precioso.

Y un hombre vi que en la desnuda mano mostraba al mundo el ascua de la vida, sin cenizas - el fuego heraclitano. Esto soñé.

Así pues, hombre, quienquiera que seas, mira ese último fin que es tu muerte y el polvo que se adueña de todo hombre que haya nacido de mujer pues así como salió desnudo del vientre de su madre también desnudo volverá a marcharse como vino.

And will that spellbound world die with you" And will that spellbound world die with you where memory holds those breaths, the purest in your life, the white shadow of your first love, the voice that went to your heart, the hand you wanted to hold in dream, and every love that touched your soul, the profound sky? Is your world to die with you, the old life for some new order? The anvils and crucibles of your soul, do they labor only for dust and the wind?

La imagen, tras el vidrio de equívoco reflejo, surge o se apaga como daguerrotipo viejo. Suena en la calle sólo el ruido de tu paso; se extinguen lentamente los ecos del ocaso.

He's always been about to leave. He doesn't know for how many years he's been a guest in his own life.

La cara no sólo es el espejo del alma, pensaba: también se va volviendo el espejo de las caras de los muertos.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

Ylimielisyys on lyhytikäinen elätti.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

We grasp at Time, but cannot hold One minute of his treasured hour; He tarries not, though oft we pray That he will rest in youth's bright bower.

He was beginning to feel his head swim a bit. It all came to this, a glance, a word, a face … everyone he knew was, most of the time, merely a recollection. Then a thought fell on him. Ghosts. Maybe we're all ghosts anyway, just as soon as the moment's passed.

I'm really not sure if others fail to perceive me or if, one fraction of a second after my face interferes with their horizon, a millionth of second after they have cast their gaze on me, they already begin to wash me from their memory: forgotten before arriving at the scant, sad archangel of a remembrance.

Mankind, fleet of life, like tree leaves, weak creatures of clay, unsubstantial as shadows, wingless, ephemeral, wretched, mortal and dreamlike.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few brief minutes and then the wind blows away your footprints