Transitory Quotes

Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as `a beautiful woman` has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

I`ve written a lot about L.A., and I always describe it as beautiful. To me, human relationships can be sad, can be exhilarating - but it`s not a product of the city. And it takes different forms. Like, in New York, you`re always with people. You can`t go outdoors, you can`t go into the subway, you can`t go anywhere without running into people you don`t know. But in L.A., you really have to work a bit to be exposed. You have to be standing in a shop, you have to join a club, or join a community service thing, or go to a nightclub in order to meet people. Because there`s not the same transitory proximity to other people.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ`s religion illuminates with His divine light.

Why shouldn`t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

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

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

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.