Top 182 Transitory Quotes & Sayings

Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.

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

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

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.

We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.

Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.

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.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.

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

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

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

Stardom's transitory. Nothing really changes except people's attitudes.

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.

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

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

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

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

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

All things are only transitory.

Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides-ashes to ashes, dust to dust-man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth... We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.

Everything transitory is but an image.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

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

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

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

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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

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

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

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

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

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

I continue to think many of the factors holding down inflation are transitory... We want to be careful not to jump to a premature conclusion about what's in store for the U.S. economy.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

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.

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.

I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.

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

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.

Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.

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

Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

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

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.