Transience Quotes

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

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

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

Change must be measured from a known base line.

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

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

Finley Peter Dunne

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.

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

Juan Ramón Jiménez

All things are subject to change and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.)

Anonymous

If you want things to stay as they are things will have to change.

Giuseppe di Lampedusa

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later: namely novelty novelty novelty.

There is nothing permanent except change.

You can't step into the same river twice.

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

T.S Eliot

It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.

Margaret Atwood

I believe in the brief eternity of the rose.

Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world.

Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long.

Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint.

Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.

Seize the day, then let it go.

And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts,into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be.

Rainer Maria Rilke