Quotes about Transience

The same fate awaits me too, and Oddball, and the Deer outside; one day we shall all be nothing more than corpses.

We live in a state of siege. If one takes a close look at each fragment of a moment, one might choke with terror. Within our bodies disintegration inexorably advances; soon we shall fall sick and die. Our loved ones will leave us, the memory of them will dissolve in the tumult; nothing will remain. Just a few clothes in the wardrobe and someone in a photograph, no longer recognized. The most precious memories will dissipate. Everything will sink into darkness and vanish.

What is will not last forever.

death is literally all around us. We cannot run and we cannot hide and we have no ability to defeat it. Death lives at our address, and there is no escaping.

Thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.