Transitory Quotes

Transitory Quote of the day

The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.

Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning.

The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias, and to fight for our dreams.

The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory.

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

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.

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.

That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product, and of which these are among the transitory expressions.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".

The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

It's my genius plan of avoiding any career momentum whatsoever. Definitely the pop-culture thing is something I've avoided in my act. It's just too transitory and ephemeral.