Quotes about Transience
and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.
- 1 Corinthians 7:31
For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
- 1 Timothy 6:7
But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
- James 1:10
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- James 4:14
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
- 1 Peter 1:24
because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
- 2 Peter 1:14
The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
- 1 John 2:17
and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.
- Paulo Coelho
If what one finds is made of pure matter,it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.
- Paulo Coelho
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
- John Milton
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
- Virginia Woolf