Quotes about Transience

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!

I often advise young brides who are traveling during their first weeks or months of marriage to start "homemaking" in a hotel, even if they are there for only a night, rather than groaning about having to "wait so long to have a home". How? ...Your own cloth, your own candlestick, just one rose or daffodil is enough to make a difference... You will be surprised how much difference it makes to have done something to make a room your home, even for one night.

Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence.

Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.No one goes away and then comes back.

He that is today a king tomorrow shall die.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end.

The voice said, Cry. And he said, what shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.

Our days on the earth are as a shadow.

Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Sweet little flower of heavenly birth You were too fair to bloom on earth.

What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.