Quotes about Transitory

The blessing is often superficial or transitory, just because they are not the nothing that opens the way for God to be all.

My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Everything gains only momentary explanation.

they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have liftoff power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.