Quotes about Transience

In the good days remember also death.

Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind only darkness and longing.

Life is like a game of Monopoly. You may own hotels on Boardwalk or you may be renting on Baltic Avenue. But in the end, it all goes back in the box. The next generation will be getting out all your stuff and playing with it or fighting over it.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...

I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses—