“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
If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear,… — Alan Watts 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
“Fate will allow the world Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“La beauté qui parle aux yeux, reprit-elle, n’est que le prestige d’un moment; l’œuil du corps n'est pas toujours celui de l'âme."… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that… — Félix J. Palma 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
“Everything is in flux, everything moves all the time. Nothing remains the same forever.” — Ryan Gelpke 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
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience. — Baldur von Schirach 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
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
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun. ("Ephemera")” — George Sterling Copy Share Image
It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who… — Arundhati Roy 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
What used to help us to cope with transience was stuff like, extended families all living in one place, or very strong… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
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
