Temporary Existence Quotes

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

Everything transitory is but an image.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

Even nothing cannot last forever.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

All good things pass away.

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

Nothing gold can stay.

And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.

Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.

It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

But the tune ends too soon for us all

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.