A Quote by Thomas a Kempis

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

Thomas a Kempis

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Thomas a Kempis
German - Priest
1380 - 1471

Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.

Thomas a Kempis

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

Thomas a Kempis

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

Thomas a Kempis

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

Thomas a Kempis

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

Thomas a Kempis

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Diana Gabaldon

Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away

William Shakespeare

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

Khalil Gibran

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

Roger Hodgson

Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?

Winston Churchill

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

Ovid

Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

Theognis of Megara

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.