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Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling. — Stephanie Mills

No permanence is ours; we are a wave
That flows to fit whatever form it finds — Hermann Hesse

Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long. — Marty Rubin

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice. — Virginia Woolf

It is the transience of life which proves its inestimable worth. — D.B. Harrop

There is a gust of eternity in every fleeting moment. — Marty Rubin

I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring. — Tarsem Singh

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery. — Ahmed Mostafa

Any wave of the ocean could be my epitaph. — Marty Rubin

Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have. — Marty Rubin

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last. — Prince

Food, she decided, was like performance rather than fine art: its power was in its transience and immediacy. — Hannah Mary Rothschild

I believe in the brief eternity of the rose. — Marty Rubin

If Nero had played a better fiddle, Rome might never have burned. — Marty Rubin

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream. — Ernest Dowson

If you don't have the courage to confront, you don't have the right to complain.
Don't wait until anger gives you the courage! — Debra Fox

I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys? — John Shors

To know yourself you must know the transience of your self. — Ilyas Kassam

You will either have value, or be grist for the mill - nothing more. — Bryant McGill

Old age is life's parody. — Simone De Beauvoir

Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he? — Paul O'Grady

I wish all this never had to change, says Rafiq, unexpectedly.
I'm pleased he's content and sad that a kid so young knows that nothing lasts. — David Mitchell

Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly. — Jay Bell

I like the transience of Klimt paintings. — Steve Coogan

Just remember this, Missy, escargot ain't nothin' but snails with their noses stuck in the air. — Lois Greiman

Seize the day, then let it go. — Marty Rubin

You know my mom told me to stop wearing my heart on my sleeve today and I told her sometimes I have to hang my feelings out to dry... — Poet On Watch

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. — Malcolm Muggeridge

A shooting star yields very little light. — Marty Rubin

If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it. — Angus King

Isn't an awareness of their transience what gives these moments their exquisite edge? — Robert Harris

How different every hour is from the one before! — Marty Rubin

Remembrance. Even more, confession. It did always made the heavy things come loose. — Erika Robuck

The Maker was a genius, he thought. Infinity resulted in insolence. But transience was the way one treasured what one had been given. — J.R. Ward

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,
The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.
("Ephemera") — George Sterling

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done. — John Burns

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience. — Baldur Von Schirach

Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning
already gone
thus should one regard one's self. — Ikkyu

How frail the bloom, how short the stay
That terminates us all!
Today we flourish green and gay,
Like leaves tomorrow fall. — John Clare

The great epiphany of man is the recognition of the transience of now. — Beverley Sylvester

I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force. — Kim Basinger

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience. — Kobayashi Issa

Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries. — Tahar Rahim