Transience Quotes
"Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree"
"Life is transient and dynamic, moving from one position to another. "
"Everything passes away suffering pain blood hunger pestilence and the sword it all passes away the suffering passes away love passes but the stars remain."
"They give birth astride of a grave the light gleams an instant then it's night once more"
"It is evident that everything is in a continual flux, and it is as impossible to find any certain individual in the world as it is to take up any definite quantity of water in the ocean."
"It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away "
"There is an end to everything, to good things as well"
"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn’t to feel – it’s to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost."
"The beautiful uncut hair of graves."
"The true picture of the past flits by "
"Dust unto dust, to this end we must come"
"Alas, how fleeting and enfeebled life passes from the world"
"The world will perish and all things pass"
"The caravan of life shall always pass; do not breathe a word, let it pass"
"Realize from early on that the world passes away, but the relic of a pious person remains"
"We shall all, without exception, be forgotten."
"Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not"
"All good things must come to an end"
"The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me"
"The lyf so short the craft so long to lerne"