“A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun. ("Ephemera")” — George Sterling Copy Share Image
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more. — Pindar 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
“Isn’t an awareness of their transience what gives these moments their exquisite edge?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The Maker was a genius, he thought. Infinity resulted in insolence. But transience was the way one treasured what one had been… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for awhile, then closes… — Ernest Dowson Copy Share Image
“Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves,… — William Wordsworth 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
“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt for a common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one… — Sov8840 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 bag was a hybrid I had picked up at a store called Suitcase City while I was plotting my comeback. [...]… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers That deck our… — Ernest Dowson Copy Share Image
I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. I don't know why. Is it because we are so… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the… — Masao Abe 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
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
When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
“Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work.… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
“We are here in a wood of little beeches: And the leaves are like black lace Against a sky of nacre. One… — Frederic Manning 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
“The human species – mammalian primates though undoubtedly (s)he is, and made out of the dust of exploded suns - does have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway,… — Ray Bradbury 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
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