Transitory Quotes - Page 6

• Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.

  Alvaro Siza Vieira

  Design, Quality, Nuance

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• Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive.

  George Harrison

  Body, Flesh, Association

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• A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ideas, Consciousness, Moments

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• [The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

  Edward Gibbon

  Greatness, Serious, Scene

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

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• Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

  Julia Cameron

  Moving, Destiny, Grace

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• 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.

  Halle Berry

  Beautiful, Heartache, Trouble

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• For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.

  Marcel Proust

  Moving, Mean, Years

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.402, Modern Library

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• Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

  Tennessee Williams

  Taken, Heart, Years

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• He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Heart, Blood, One Day

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.416, Diversion Books

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• All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Metaphor

  "Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 5, 1832.

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• By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

  E. M. Forster

  Sides, Room With A View, Everlasting

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.

  Edwin Markham

  Giving, Silence, Generations

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• It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Animal, Agony

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.29, Publishdrive

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• The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Doe, Way, Realizing

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Passion, Perfection, Peaceful

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.44, Wordsworth Editions

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• When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Age, Able, Should

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• Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Mind

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• The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspiration, Greatness, Wind

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• Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Disappointment, Taken

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 22, 2016

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• The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Past, Stones, Today

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Born Of Silence: Number 5 in series”, p.160, Hachette UK

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• One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.

  Napoleon Hill

  Love Is, Worry, Warning

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.142, Penguin

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• The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Believe, Sacrifice

  "The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer, (p. 111), 1951.

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• The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Aim, Particular

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• Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.

  Frank Herbert

  Greatness, Imagination, Feelings

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• I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.

  Anita Roddick

  Success, Destiny, Care

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