Quotes on Transience

Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.