Quotes About Transience

The day after tomorrow you'll say that only the day before you saw someone who no longer exists. He stays in your memory for a split second and then vanishes.

Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles.

Leven is eigenlijk niets anders dan afscheid nemen van leven. Dat is de kern van het leven, en liefde is afscheid nemen van liefde - het is allemaal één groot afscheidsfeest. Het was een mooi afscheidsfeest, maar ik moet nu naar huis, even uitslapen, de afwas doen van verleden week. Begrijp je?

Buddha spoke very frequently about the impermanence (in Sanskrit, anitya) of everything.

I've learnt that money comes very quickly, but it leaves even quicker.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

I love magazines because they're so dispensable, and they're so quickly consumed. In that way, they're quite honest. They're unashamed about how small an amount of time they're trying to keep our attention.

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

All glory is fleeting. And, If you do not love what you do, don't do it.

We all enjoy the band and what we're doing, but we know this isn't gonna last forever.

Good things only can last so long.

You never realize that good things are going to be over some day.

And now you intend to stay here with us in Riva?' asked the burgomaster. 'I do not,' said the hunter with a smile, and to excuse the jest he laid his hand on the burgomaster's knee. 'I am here, more than that I do not know. My boat has no rudder, it is driven by the wind that blows in the nethermost regions of death.

Non poteva essere altrimenti. Il mondo non aveva consistenza, poiché era formato della cenere di astri bruciati.

p5 - It is matter for wonder: the moment that is here and gone, that was nothing before and nothing after, returns like a specter to trouble the quiet of a later moment...the beast(animals)...forgets at once and sees every moment really die, sink into night and mist, extinguished forever. The beast lives unhistorically...

Las delicias de este mundo ya he gozado, Los días de mi juventud hace tanto, ¡tanto!, que se desvanecieron, Abril y Mayo y Julio están lejanos, ¡Ya nada soy, ya nada me complace!

And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.

What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it?

Life is a journey so everyone is a tourist

Most books are born from the smoke and vapour of the brain: and to vapour and smoke may they well return. For having no fire within themselves, they shall be visited with fire.

Além todo o discurso é vão! A melhor sabedoria é esquecer e passar: foi isto que aprendeste agora.

Le dijo que el amor era un sentimiento contra natura, que condenaba a dos desconocidos a una dependencia mezquina e insalubre, tanto más efímera cuanto más intensa.

She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune monent.