76 Quotes About Transience

Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.

Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long.

Since nothing is permanent, will transience conform to this law and become permanent?

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.

People and things will come and go. Everything in this life is transient. This is why spirit must always be our first priority. For it is our only true constant.

It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

Habuisse eripitur, habere numquam.

My house, my wife, my children-as if any of that really belongs to me.