Transitoriness Quotes

#1. One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.

Stefan Zweig

#2. The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Allen Ginsberg

#3. The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

Viktor E. Frankl

#4. God, however, is first glimpsed within nature's still greater powerlessness - its transitoriness and contingency and explanatory poverty.

David Bentley Hart

#5. And yet is not this transitoriness a reminder that challenges us to make the best possible use of each moment of our lives? It certainly is, and hence my imperative: Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. In

Viktor E. Frankl

#6. In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

P.D. James

#7. FIREFLAKES: The stars; as transitory as snowflakes only their transitoriness is protracted.

Amy Leach

#8. Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.

Margot Asquith

#9. The great critic ... must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, This, too, will pass away.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11. The Transitoriness of Life
To what may man's life be compared?
To a boat which rowed away,
Far in the sea, and left no track,
In the morning of the day.
Shami Mansai

Reiko Chiba

#12. Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

Dougray Scott

#13. In July the Sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it's not!

Michael Flanders

#14. It is quiet at home today. I got my wisdom tooth extracted.

Andy Paula

#15. When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

Ernest Renan

#16. The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

Esther Dyson

#17. No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

Meister Eckhart