Quotes about Transience

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What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up — Eckhart Tolle
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the you — Virginia Woolf, Orlando
We are here in a wood of little beeches: And the leaves are like black lace Against a sky of nacre. One bough of clear p — Frederic Manning
Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery. — Ahmed Mostafa
As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of its winds.I have mad — Wendell Berry
Flowers, cold from the dew,And autumn's approaching breath,I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids,Which haven't faded ye — Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers That deck our — Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, A — Ovid, Metamorphoses
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for awhile, then closesWithin a dream — Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last. — Prince, 1999 (Piano/Vocal/Guitar)
A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.("Ephemera") — George Sterling, The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a tr — Michael Connelly, The Brass Verdict
You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kiss — Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York
You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his v — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever. — Marty Rubin
Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while loo — Yoshida Kenkō, Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko
The pleasure-house is dust:—behind, before,This is no common waste, no common gloom;But Nature, in due course of time, o — William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passio — Michael Bassey Johnson
The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learne — Eudora Welty, On Writing
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to th — Paulo Coelho