Transitory Quotes

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He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with… — W. Somerset Maugham
All that is transitory is but a metaphor. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. — E. M. Forster
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and… — Edwin Markham
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires… — Arthur Schopenhauer
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
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our… — Hermann Hesse
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory,… — Bertrand Russell
Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of… — Paulo Coelho
Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond… — Tom Robbins
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which… — Milan Kundera
I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every… — Isabel Allende
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo
Let the Lord your God be your hope â€“ seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people… — Saint Augustine
The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and… — Napoleon Hill
The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the… — Eric Hoffer

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