76 Quotes About Transience

Time is a river that carries us along. We have to leave everything behind.

And so the spring buds burst, and so I gaze,And so the blossoms fall, and so my days ...

How fragile, how ephemeral in flightThis life -- for instance: butterfly, alight!

Dat der ‘ouse ain’t me ‘ome, sonny boy. You’ll ne’r trap me in an ‘ouse. And anyways, what youngen doesn’t like knockin’ down sandcastles? It’s every boy’s dream t’ knock down a giant sandcastle. I ‘av a lot o’ fun buildin’ ‘em and knockin’ ‘em down. If I didn’t knock ‘em down, the tide ‘ll take ‘em. Nothin’ lasts ferever.”“Then where do you live?” asked Jack very much relieved.“Me, sonny boy, lives in a very quiet place where de silence is me windows,” answered the leprechaun.

To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.

Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world.

I believe in the brief eternity of the rose.

Pantheism is no eternal solution, it´s merely a fallen mirror of the true God potentiality. Everything that is not everlasting is not worthy to be defined as ultimate reality. Transience is a game played by the snake. In absolute reality there is no movement.

How different every hour is from the one before!