Quotes about Transience
“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
— Psalm 39:4
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
— Psalm 39:5
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
— Psalm 39:6
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
— Psalm 62:9
But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”
— Psalm 82:7
You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
— Psalm 90:5
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
— Psalm 102:3
They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.
— Psalm 102:26
As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
— Psalm 103:15
I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
— Psalm 109:23
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
— Psalm 144:4
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
— Psalm 146:4