Quotes about Transience

Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

Everyone is born equal; we will all die and shed our earthly glory. Riches, power and fame last for only a few short years. Why do we cling so desperately to these fleeting things? Why can't people who have more than enough for their own needs give the rest to their fellow human beings? Why should anyone have to have such a hard life for those few short years on earth?

In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away

The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.

Today will never come again.

In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.

You can't get out of life alive.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

When I was 14, I was on the cover of 'Bop' and 'Tiger Beat.' Every two months, I would see a new kid's face, and I remember saying, 'This is not something that lasts very long.'

The world's thy ship and not thy home.