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
“You're saying nothing lasts forever, he heard the fellow whine. (Well, pretty trite, he thought.) No, he heard her say. I'm saying… — Iain M. Banks 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 things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more. — Pindar 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
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
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
“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
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them. — Paulo Coelho 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
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
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
“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
“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
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron 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
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
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
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
“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
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
