Quotes about Transience
The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
— William Faulkner
Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.
— Henry Blackaby
In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.
— Thomas Jefferson
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
— Thomas a Kempis
NOBODIES HAVE LASTING SIGNIFICANCE
— Charles Swindoll
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.
— Thomas a Kempis
We are here today and gone tomorrow.
— Anonymous
a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.
— JM Coetzee
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
— Jack Kerouac
And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him.
— Jack Kerouac
Like as the birds that gather in the trees of afternoon,' wrote Ashvhaghosha almost two thousand years ago, 'then at nightfall vanish all away, so are the separations of the world.
— Jack Kerouac