Quotes about Transience
Today will never come again.
— Thomas Merton
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.
— Virginia Woolf
You can't get out of life alive.
— Les Brown
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
— Marcus Aurelius
When I was 14, I was on the cover of 'Bop' and 'Tiger Beat.' Every two months, I would see a new kid's face, and I remember saying, 'This is not something that lasts very long.'
— Leonardo DiCaprio
The world's thy ship and not thy home.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.
— Samuel Beckett
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!
— Samuel Johnson
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
It's a town you come to for a short time.
— Ernest Hemingway
Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.
— William Faulkner