Quotes about Transience

Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to look for their fruits and yet to be unprepared for their fall. Let it be your consolation, then, that God's enemies, however honorable and exalted they may have been, shall nevertheless fade away like the smoke.

I suffered immensely. Then it passed away. I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.

He didn't know, as we grownups knew, what the war meant and might mean. He had only understood that what we were that day was lovely and could not last.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

NOBODIES HAVE LASTING SIGNIFICANCE

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

We are here today and gone tomorrow.

a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.