Quotes about Transience

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...

I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses—

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses--

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life—not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

He fears all worldly setback for there is nothing eternal in him.

The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.