Transitory Quotes

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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest. — Abu Bakr
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory… — Charles Baudelaire
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has… — Halle Berry
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over… — Jean Giraudoux
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must… — Frank Herbert
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana
I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege… — Anita Roddick
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or… — Freya Stark
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.… — Samuel Johnson
We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it… — Hudson Taylor
If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent… — Martin Luther
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause,… — Edward Weston
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not… — Mahatma Gandhi
All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and… — Charles Baudelaire
Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite… — Pope John Paul II
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his… — Albert Einstein
You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory â€” the appearance is fashion,… — Massimo Vignelli
Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have… — Anne Frank
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory. — Henry David Thoreau

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