Transient Quotes

It was the most fleeting time of day, and maybe that was why it was her favorite. Because if you blinked, if you closed your eyes or turned your head for even the briefest of moments, you might just miss it. And like most things in life, the transient, fleeting nature of the moment made it all the more special.

Kelseyleigh Reber

What you see with your eyes are transient and ephemeral,What you see through your heart is everlasting and eternal.

Debasish Mridha

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next. We’re a sneeze in the life of the universe.

Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever.

Debasish Mridha

There is no illusion in awaken mind, because everything is perceived as impermanent and transient.

Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective

This is the only truth in the world that was necessary yesterday, is necessary today, and will continue to be necessary tomorrow: be conscious of now.

In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds would stop over in those days for a single performance in Jackson's Century Theatre. Then, as now, my imagination was magnetized toward transient artists - toward the transience as much as the artists. I must have seen "Acrobats in a Park" at the time I wrote the story as exotic, free of any experience as I knew it. At the center of the little story is the Zorro's act: the feat of erecting a structure of their bodies that holds together, interlocked, and stands like a wall. Writing about the family act, I was writing about the family itself, its strength as a unit, testing its frailty under stress. I treated it in an artificial and oddly formal way; the stronghold of the family is put on view as a structure built each night; on the night before the story opens, the Wall has come down when the most vulnerable member slips, and the act is done for. But from various points within it and from outside it, I've been writing about the structure of the family in stories and novels ever since. In spite of my uncompromising approach to it, my fundamental story form might have been trying to announce itself to me.

Life is a flow of changes—transient and ephemeral.

Debasish Mridha

Life is like a snowflake—transient, translucent, adventurous, ephemeral, and beautiful.

Debasish Mridha

If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return.

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

We exist only to exist.

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.