Transient Quotes

• Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

  

  Periander
  • Honor
  • Pleasures
  • Transient

• The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Message
  • Piece
  • Possessions

• I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • Way
  • Opinions
  • Instrument

• Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born.

  

  Walter Russell
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Matter

• The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Influence
  • Sensational
  • Adversely

• Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Space
  • Worlds
  • Transient

• Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Quality
  • Modernity
  • Transient

• Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Aim
  • Accomplish
  • Transient

• I was quite small as a kid and maybe a little afraid physically. When I grew into myself, the realisation changed. That when you hurt yourself, it's transient; it doesn't stay forever.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Hurt
  • Yourself
  • Transient

• I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Judge
  • Prove
  • Determine

• Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.

  

  Mohsin Hamid
  • Sometimes
  • Loses
  • Transient

• She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Forgotten
  • Impression
  • Transient

• People in the United States are highly transient. Families move from state to state. So why do we take a full year - in some states, two years - to study state history? It takes time away from more important topics.

  

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs
  • People
  • United States
  • Transient

• What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Difference
  • Boring
  • Transient

• Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Gods
  • Created
  • Transient