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Transience Quotes
"He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped."
67
"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."
57
"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
51
"Brief as the lightning in the collied night;That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!"The jaws of darkness do devour it up.So quick bright things come to confusion."
51
"The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face."
48
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud ."
47
"The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die."
46
"Time is the subtle thief of youth."
45
"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."
45
"We only pass everything by like a transposition of air."
45
"Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow."
44
"The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground."
41
"From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star."
39
"You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky."
39
"The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts."
38
"Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone."
38
"But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place."
37
"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
37
"They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion."
37
"Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result."
35
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
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