Robert Musil Quotes

All things are only transitory.

No blessing lasts forever.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

Ephemeral should be the default.

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.

Time is not kind to everything.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

The kindly light has a brief period of shining.

My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow.

A trend is exactly that, and it's going to disappear.

I think everything is temporary.

Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.