Transiency Quotes & Sayings

When a bookmark tumbles out of an old book pristine and unwrinkled, it is like a gasp of breath from another century. — Don Borchert

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging. — Gautama Buddha

The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
The tragedy of human love and need?
Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face! — George Sterling

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency. — Irvin D. Yalom

...there comes a time in each man's life when he must choose to stand or run. I choose to stand. — Charles Bukowski

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity. — Lionel Shriver

He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree to be; or, for image followed image, it was the back of a great horse that he was riding, or the deck of a tumbling ship
it was anything indeed, so long as it was hard, for he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced and amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out. — Virginia Woolf

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Listen to the advice of someone about to die. Do it while you are still young. — Glen McDiarmid

She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants ... — Francoise Sagan

Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you? — Alexander MacLaren

Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike. — Robert Browning

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. We should find perfection in imperfection ... The eternal exists because of non-eternal existence ... We should find the truth in this world, through our difficulties, through our suffering ... Pleasure is not different from difficulty. Good is not different from bad. — Shunryu Suzuki

Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything. — Lemony Snicket

TRANSIENCY We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. — Shunryu Suzuki

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery. — Ahmed Mostafa