Quotes about Transience
I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
- Psalm 109:23
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Psalm 144:4
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
- Psalm 146:4
on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,
- Ecclesiastes 12:3
A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
- Isaiah 40:6
The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
- Isaiah 40:7
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
- Isaiah 40:8
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
- Isaiah 40:24
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
- Hosea 13:3
Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
- Nahum 3:17
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
- Matthew 6:30
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!
- Luke 12:28