Temporariness Quotes

Democracy is like a street car. You get off when you reach your destination.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

You can't do something forever.

Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.

Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.

This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.

Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

I know I can't stay here forever

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

There are three things not worth running for—a bus, a woman, or a new economic panacea; if you wait a bit, another one will come along.

Everything in life is just for a while.

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting to end. I feel the temporariness of my freedom, and find it hard to concentrate on anything other than the sensation of it trickling away.

Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.

Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.