Transiency Quotes

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing with everything else: the movie comes out, and then it's gone. Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

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.

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

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.