A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life… — Said Nursi Copy Share Image
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. — William Law Copy Share Image
All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation. — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles… — Charles Wagner Copy Share Image
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his… — William Watson Copy Share Image
Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment,… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own. — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make… — George Carey Copy Share Image
If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
