Quotes about Transience

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.

If what one finds is made of pure matter,it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

The calamities we experience here are only temporary phenomena. Each disaster reminds us that a disaster-free eternity

Everything on earth changes - we have no abiding city here - it is the experience of everybody. That it is God's will that we should part with what is dearest on earth - we ourselves change in many respects, we are not what we once were, we shall not remain what we are now.

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.