Quotes about Transience

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

Of every event in our life we can say only for one moment that it is; for ever after, that it was. Every evening we are poorer by a day. It might, perhaps, make us mad to see how rapidly our short span of time ebbs away; if it were not that in the furthest depths of our being we are secretly conscious of our share in the exhaustible spring of eternity, so that we can always hope to find life in it again.

Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

But you could just as well call this mode of life the greatest folly: for that which in a moment ceases to exist, which vanishes as completely as a dream, cannot be worth any serious effort.

There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

Temporary friends sometimes bring us to permanent blessings.