Transience Quotes

The essence of existence lies in transience. Everything is fleeting, every moment ephemeral, like a dewdrop on a leaf at sunrise. This realization is not an invitation to sadness, but an invitation to live life with all its faculties, for everything that exists will change, and everything that is present will pass.

It is the truth that reminds us of the value of the present moment, and the beauty of things before they fade. We become attached to things and people, but the nature of life is in its continuous flow, and in its ability to renew through loss.

It is an invitation to contemplate the changing nature of everything, from thoughts and feelings to the material worlds. Ponder these quotes that unveil the secrets of ephemerality, the temporary, and impermanence.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius: Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same...
Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.
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— Marcus Aurelius
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Quote by Socrates: Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf....
Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
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— Socrates
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Quote by William Shakespeare: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into ...
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
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— William Shakespeare
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Quote by Socrates: Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, s...
Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
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— Socrates
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Quote by Franz Kafka: You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once...
You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.
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— Franz Kafka
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Quote by William Butler Yeats: One had a lovely face,And two or three had charm,But charm and face were in vain.Because the mountai...
One had a lovely face,And two or three had charm,But charm and face were in vain.Because the mountain grassCannot keep the formWhere the mountain hare has lain.
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— William Butler Yeats
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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more....
Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.
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— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote by Charles Dickens: Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautif...
Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.
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— Charles Dickens
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Quote by Rumi: You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it....
You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it.
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— Rumi
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Quote by Henry David Thoreau: Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summe...
Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.
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— Henry David Thoreau
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Quote by Socrates: Beauty is a short-lived tyranny....
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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— Socrates
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