Quotes about Transience

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

He uses the world as if he used it not, 1 Cor. 7. 31.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

In the good days remember also death.

Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind only darkness and longing.

Life is like a game of Monopoly. You may own hotels on Boardwalk or you may be renting on Baltic Avenue. But in the end, it all goes back in the box. The next generation will be getting out all your stuff and playing with it or fighting over it.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.