Transience Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of… — George Schaller
Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience. — Kobayashi Issa
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the… — Andy Goldsworthy
When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience. — Baldur von Schirach
Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. — Shunryu Suzuki
Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter… — Art Garfunkel
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from… — FÃ©lix J. Palma
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness. — Petrarch
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. — Malcolm Muggeridge
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay. — William Wordsworth
Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away. — Saadi
No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like… — Saadi
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
Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day… — Euripides
Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more. — Pindar
This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own… — Gerhard Richter
Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling. — Stephanie Mills

Who Wrote These Transience Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 28 Transience Quotes as follows: