Quotes about Transience
death is literally all around us. We cannot run and we cannot hide and we have no ability to defeat it. Death lives at our address, and there is no escaping.
— Paul David Tripp
Thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.
— Paul Hoffman
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
— Job 7:6
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
— Job 7:7
The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
— Job 7:8
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
— Job 7:9
For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
— Job 8:9
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
— Job 8:12
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
— Job 13:28
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
— Job 16:22
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
— Job 20:5
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
— Psalm 37:2