Transience Quotes

"Friends can come and go, but banners hang forever." "Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor." "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" "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" "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet" "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles" "The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless." "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 greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing." "The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow" "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." "The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long." "Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible." "Just because something is over doesn’t mean it wasn’t incredibly beautiful" "We are but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass" "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." "I know way too many people here right now that I didn't know last year" "Life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last" "We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." "Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."