Transient Quotes

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal. (Periander)
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent. View quote
Maimonides
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour Improve each moment as it flies Life 's a short summer, man a flower He diesalas how soon he dies. View quote
Samuel Johnson
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. View quote
Edward Hopper
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient, comes, and lo is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable. View quote
Robert Browning
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. View quote
William Wordsworth
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven. View quote
Edward Young
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. (Guru Nanak Dev)
This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear. View quote
Gerry Mulligan
In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it. These were,first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led. View quote
James Madison
If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out. View quote
George Eliot
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights-and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks, one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller, usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well-magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius? View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality. View quote
Georg Cantor
Not bodies produce sensations, but element-complexes (sensation-complexes) constitute the bodies. When the physicist considers the bodies as the permanent reality, the `elements' as the transient appearance, he does not realise that all `bodies' are only mental symbols for element-complexes. View quote
Ernst Mach
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
If we take an unprejudiced view of the processes of consciousness, free from all the so-called association rules and theories, we see at once that an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again. (Wilhelm Wundt)
The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. View quote
C. F. Powell
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. View quote
Gene Tierney
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. View quote
James Stockdale
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. View quote
Jock Sturges