Transience Quotes

It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were alwa...

As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing ...

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, t...

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they sa...

When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuring...

I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be...

What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.

There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later: namely novelty no...

You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it wa...

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets sa...

As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of ...

The pleasure-house is dust:—behind, before,This is no common waste, no common gloom;But Nature, in d...

I am who I am.A coincidence no less unthinkablethan any other.I could have had differentancestors, a...

The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart o...

Flowers, cold from the dew,And autumn's approaching breath,I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids,Wh...

'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter o...

You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place ...

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation tha...

Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty fleeing fl...

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for awhile, then ...

I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years.

When you get there there isn't any there there.

All things must change to something new to something strange.

There is nothing permanent except change.

You can't step into the same river twice.

Like vanishing dew,a passing apparitionor the sudden flashof lightning -- already gone --thus should...

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.