Transitoriness Quotes
9 quotes by 8 authors
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The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing…
— Margot Asquith
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The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of…
— Allen Ginsberg
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This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that…
— P.D. James
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Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against…
— Stefan Zweig
Who Wrote These Transitoriness Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 9 Transitoriness Quotes as follows: