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
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness. — Petrarch 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
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
“Since nothing is permanent, will transience conform to this law and become permanent?” — Mehmet Murat ildan 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“But even in this card, as in all cards: transience. The faces in the crowd — faces that will watch the every… — Josh Wilker 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'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
“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
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
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
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
“Fate will allow the world Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Everything is in flux, everything moves all the time. Nothing remains the same forever.” — Ryan Gelpke 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
“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
The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream! — Franz Grillparzer 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
Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling. — Stephanie Mills 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
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
“Jewelry of the clouds on the horizon; Seven circles are intertwined. A voice follows you without words; Soft footsteps, in the water… — sir kristian goldmund aumann 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
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
“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
“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
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
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