Quotes about Transience
In secret pleasure — secret tears. This changeful life has slipped away.
— Emily Bronte
Continually remind yourself that you are a mortal being, and someday will die.
— Epictetus
Everything in life is just for a while.
— Philip K. Dick
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
— Joseph Campbell
I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.
— Mother Angelica
Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
— Muhammad Ali
The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A day is a miniature eternity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent.
— Randy Alcorn
Everything gains only momentary explanation.
— Ravi Zacharias
they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have liftoff power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.
— Ravi Zacharias