Transience Quotes - Page 2

• The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Blow, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.124

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• Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Expression, Ideas, Political

  Fuente: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• ¿Quién soñó que la belleza pasa como un sueño?
  Para estos labios rojos, con todo su lúgubre orgullo,
  Lamentando que ninguna nueva maravilla pueda acontecer,
  Troya pasó en un alto resplandor fúnebre,
  Y los hijos de Usna murieron.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.28, Wordsworth Editions

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• Cheat me not with time,
  with the dull ache of flesh,
  for all flesh turns,
  even the loveliest
  ankle and frail thigh,
  to bitterest dust.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Time, Dust, Ankles

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.287, New Directions Publishing

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• If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

  Alan Watts

  Pain, Ghost, Forgotten

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.29, Souvenir Press

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• The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense of the transience, indefiniteness, and provisional nature of any settlement.

  Henry Giroux

  Generations, Way, Youth

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an
  end

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Long, Enough, Ends

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.410, Carcanet

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• Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.

  Iván Turguéniev

  Self, Live In The Moment, Life Is

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• En todas las grandes obras de ficción, independientemente de la cruda realidad que presentan, hay una afirmación de la vida contra la fugacidad de esa vida, un desafío esencial. Esta afirmación reside en la forma en que el autor se apodera de la realidad al volver a contarla a su manera, creando así un mundo nuevo. Toda gran obra de arte, declararía pomposamente, es una celebración, un acto de insubordinación contra las traiciones, los horrores y las infidelidades de la vida. La perfección y la belleza de la forma se rebelan contra la fealdad y la bajeza del tema.

  Azar Nafisi

  Arte, Traición, Mentira

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• It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, Commitment, Eye

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• Nada mortal es duradero, y no hay nada dulce que no termine en amargura.

  Petrarca

  Sweet, Doe, Bitterness

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• No importa la fugacidad del mundo del espectáculo y la popularidad. Cuando oímos a Ray Charles, decimos: 'Es un gran cantante'. No hace falta que un periodista o un escritor nos lo digan. Lo bueno es bueno y debe brillar a lo largo de los años.

  Art Garfunkel

  Años, Brillante, Mente

  "Art Garfunkel: Lo que he aprendido", por Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. 21 de diciembre de 2011.

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• Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Symphony, Youth, Faust

  "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership". Book by Joachim C. Fest , p. 221, 1999.

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• Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Weather, Keys

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• This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own relationship to reality; and this has a great deal to do with imprecision, uncertainty, transience, incompleteness, or whatever. But this doesn't explain the pictures. At best it explains what led to their being painted.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Reality, Technique

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). "Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007", Distributed Art Pub Inc.

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• With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of pre-existing defined groups, the tribe is disappearing. I'm not in favor of going back to those things, but you can't take those things away without putting something new in its place. So finding a way to make transience more acceptable, even beautiful is key.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Keys

  Fuente: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Stories, Paradise, Exploration

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• yet it seems
  Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,
  Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,
  But the torn petals strew the garden plot;
  And there's but common greenness after that.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Morning, Garden

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• What used to help us to cope with transience was stuff like, extended families all living in one place, or very strong religious beliefs, or a tribe that would outlive you. That stuff is getting weaker.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Religious, Strong, Stuff

  Fuente: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act.

  Félix J. Palma

  Cousin, Attitude, Literary Genre

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• No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.

  Saadi

  Dream, Kings, Boys

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• Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles for a brief period of time and then gone, as when Prospero describes the pageant fading, leaving "not a rack behind."

  Martha Ronk

  Play, Leaving, Gone

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• Todo aquí abajo, bajo el sol, está sujeto a continuos cambios; y quizá no haya nada que pueda llamarse más inconstante que la opinión, que gira en un círculo eterno como la rueda de la fortuna. El que hoy cosecha alabanzas, mañana se ve abrumado por mordaces censuras; hoy pisoteamos al hombre que mañana se elevará muy por encima de nosotros.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Hombres, Círculos, Pies

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2012). "Los mejores cuentos de Hoffmann", p.365, Courier Corporation.

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