“Everything is in flux, everything moves all the time. Nothing remains the same forever.” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“Fate will allow the world Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling. — Stephanie Mills 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
The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream! — Franz Grillparzer 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
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness. — Petrarch 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
Cheat me not with time, with the dull ache of flesh, for all flesh turns, even the loveliest ankle and frail thigh,… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“the doctrine of Transience supplies us with an inexhaustible source of hope and comfort, leads us into the living universe, and introduces… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
“It is easy to make fleeting footprints in the snow; It is hard to make lasting marks in the stone. Shall I… — Shen Tao 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
With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or… — John O'Donohue 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
“8. Change as seen by Zen. Zen, like Hinayanism, does not deny the doctrine of Transience, but it has come to a… — Kaiten Nukariya 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
On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles… — Martha Ronk 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
“Since nothing is permanent, will transience conform to this law and become permanent?” — Mehmet Murat ildan 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
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
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance,… — Jane Hirshfield 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
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
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
“Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let him who has,… — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
