Quotes about Transience

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses--

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life—not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

He fears all worldly setback for there is nothing eternal in him.

The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

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!

I often advise young brides who are traveling during their first weeks or months of marriage to start "homemaking" in a hotel, even if they are there for only a night, rather than groaning about having to "wait so long to have a home". How? ...Your own cloth, your own candlestick, just one rose or daffodil is enough to make a difference... You will be surprised how much difference it makes to have done something to make a room your home, even for one night.

Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence.

Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.No one goes away and then comes back.

He that is today a king tomorrow shall die.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end.