Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“No permanence is ours; we are a wave That flows to fit whatever form it finds: Through night or day, cathedral or… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes… — Adalbert Stifter Copy Share Image
The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream! — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Since nothing is permanent, will transience conform to this law and become permanent?” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water,… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that… — Saadi Copy Share Image
“You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.” — James Salter Copy Share Image
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt by the common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
