Quotes about Transience

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

Of every event in our life we can say only for one moment that it is; for ever after, that it was. Every evening we are poorer by a day. It might, perhaps, make us mad to see how rapidly our short span of time ebbs away; if it were not that in the furthest depths of our being we are secretly conscious of our share in the exhaustible spring of eternity, so that we can always hope to find life in it again.

Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

But you could just as well call this mode of life the greatest folly: for that which in a moment ceases to exist, which vanishes as completely as a dream, cannot be worth any serious effort.

There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

Temporary friends sometimes bring us to permanent blessings.

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

He uses the world as if he used it not, 1 Cor. 7. 31.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!