Transient Quotes

“Sit here,
so I may write
you into a poem
and make you
eternal.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“In the silence of the woods it felt like I could hear the passage of time, of life passing by. One person leaves, another appears. A thought flits away and another takes its place. One image bids farewell and another one appears on the scene. As the days piled up, I wore out, too, and was remade. Nothing stayed still. And time was lost. Behind me, time became dead grains of sand, which one after another gave way and vanished. I just sat there in front of the hole, listening to the sound of time dying.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“If today is not your day,
then be happy
for this day shall never return.
And if today is your day,
then be happy now
for this day shall never return.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Let us acknowledge our humble origins and the transient nature of life. By embracing our capacity for resilience and empathy, we create meaning, connect with others, and find beauty in the world. ("A handful of dust")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“What you see with your eyes are transient and ephemeral,
What you see through your heart is everlasting and eternal.”
― Debasish Mridha

“And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next. We’re a sneeze in the life of the universe.”
― Danny Wallace, Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe

“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Life is a flow of changes—transient and ephemeral.”
― Debasish Mridha

“We exist only to exist.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Forget the clock. It has no power over time.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“transient, adj.

In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office, this desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that I will have to look for other ways to identify the time.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“Life is like a snowflake—transient, translucent, adventurous, ephemeral, and beautiful.”
― Debasish Mridha

“We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way; this is something that transitory bodies cannot avoid!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“This is the only truth in the world that was necessary yesterday, is necessary today, and will continue to be necessary tomorrow: be conscious of now.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant.”
― Debasish Mridha

“She put her arm around my shoulder and squeezed me. She whispered, "It's not the worst thing, Ruthie, drifting. You'll see. You'll see.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“People and things will come and go. Everything in this life is transient. This is why spirit must always be our first priority. For it is our only true constant.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective”
― Farley Maglaya

“Everything is transitory. What are we trying to grasp or hold?? What are we worried about??”
― Aditya Ajmera

“In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds would stop over in those days for a single performance in Jackson's Century Theatre. Then, as now, my imagination was magnetized toward transient artists - toward the transience as much as the artists. I must have seen "Acrobats in a Park" at the time I wrote the story as exotic, free of any experience as I knew it. At the center of the little story is the Zorro's act: the feat of erecting a structure of their bodies that holds together, interlocked, and stands like a wall. Writing about the family act, I was writing about the family itself, its strength as a unit, testing its frailty under stress. I treated it in an artificial and oddly formal way; the stronghold of the family is put on view as a structure built each night; on the night before the story opens, the Wall has come down when the most vulnerable member slips, and the act is done for. But from various points within it and from outside it, I've been writing about the structure of the family in stories and novels ever since. In spite of my uncompromising approach to it, my fundamental story form might have been trying to announce itself to me.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“Recently, she had begun allowing herself to imagine what it must feel like to live for the moment - to wake up and not have your day mapped out in front of you; to go where you pleased; to meet new people from all walks of life and to absorb sights most people only witness in TV documentaries.”
― John Marrs, The Vacation

“It was the most fleeting time of day, and maybe that was why it was her favorite. Because if you blinked, if you closed your eyes or turned your head for even the briefest of moments, you might just miss it. And like most things in life, the transient, fleeting nature of the moment made it all the more special.”
― Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist

“There is no illusion in awaken mind, because everything is perceived as impermanent and transient.”
― Aditya Ajmera

“There is nothing as powerful to the human psyche as the mental image educed by viewing a magnificent vista. We comprehend the paltriest of our bodies whenever a single person travels across an open desert or an immense prairie, stands on top of a mountain range, walks in the sand in front of a furious sea, or lies on their back and takes in the magnificence of the misty span of the Milky Way. Each act of magnification places us in touch with the finiteness and irrelevance of our trifling personhood. We can only view the broad expanse of the desert and steppe, the sheerness of a mountaintop, the immensity of the sea, and the immeasurable vastness of the galaxy with an overpowering sense of both horror and awe as their grand span transcends human scale. The overpowering physicality of these vistas stands as a testament to their cold indifference to the mortality of humankind. The sheer immensity of nature’s breadth beseeches us to consider the unthinkable: we are transient beings. We are mortal; we are mere sparklers burning fitfully until our spurting light completely fizzles out.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“But innocence is only pleasurable because it is transient.”
― Iain Pears, The Portrait

“Even happiness is transient, as it needs a reason. The ultimate state is bliss”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being