All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I pity those who make much ado about the transitory nature of all things and are lost in the contemplation of earthly vanity: are…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All things are only transitory.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything transitory is but an image.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one All other…

— Carl Jung

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks…

— Mary Livermore

The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining…

— Gustave Le Bon

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of…

— Albert Einstein

“They [progressives] are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument…

— Anonymous

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

— Charles Baudelaire

If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship…

— Maximus the Confessor

Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this…

— Alvaro Siza Vieira

The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow…

— Paulo Coelho

Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent,…

— Frederick Lenz

You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day…

— Winifred Holtby