Transient Quotes

168 quotes by 142 authors

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held… — Arnold Bennett
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and… — Joseph Addison
If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on… — Carl von Clausewitz
I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at… — Galileo Galilei
...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient… — Wilhelm Wundt
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. — H. L. Mencken
Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion. — Ralph Lauren
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight. — Sharon Salzberg
The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things… — Meher Baba
The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and… — Sri Aurobindo
Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche
He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the… — Jim Elliot
From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring — Soren Kierkegaard
The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others… — Washington Irving
The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently… — Ferdinand von Mueller

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