Transience Quotes

"The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains " "Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive." "We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." "Life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last" "I know way too many people here right now that I didn't know last year" "We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye." "We are but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass" "Just because something is over doesn’t mean it wasn’t incredibly beautiful" "Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible." "The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long." "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." "Friends can come and go, but banners hang forever." "The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow" "The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing." "Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever." "The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless." "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles" "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet" "If you find yourself half naked and barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing, again, the earth’s great sonorous moan that says you are the air of the now and gone, that says all you love will turn into peace" "When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves ver"