Quotes about Transience
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
- Job 16:22
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
- Job 20:5
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
- Psalm 37:2
“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
- Psalm 39:4
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Psalm 39:5
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
- Psalm 39:6
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalm 62:9
But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”
- Psalm 82:7
You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
- Psalm 90:5
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- Psalm 102:3
They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.
- Psalm 102:26
As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
- Psalm 103:15