Transient Quotes

168 quotes by 142 authors

We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to… — Bernard Lown
I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be… — Terry Tempest Williams
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets. — Constantin Stanislavski
It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I… — Edward Abbey
And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all… — Zadie Smith
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to… — Will Durant
I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears… — Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty is transient and changes with time. — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. — James Bovard
Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm… — George MacDonald
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of… — Gautama Buddha
Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal. — Periander
Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom and fatigue he… — John L. Parker Jr.
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and… — Karl Jaspers
Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to… — Georg Cantor
Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing — Tracey Emin
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it. — Ann Radcliffe
The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me. — Oskar Kokoschka
The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger whom you await,… — Ramana Maharshi
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity. — Jack Kornfield

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