Transient Quotes

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

- DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

I feel like I wanna have a series of moments. It's scary when they say you're having a moment, because moments are momentary.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

No blessing lasts forever.

Content is a glimpse.

Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

It's been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up.

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

When you're in sports, you have such a limited time and then, it's all over with, finished.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

I'm a flash in the pan: a novelty.

All things are only transitory.

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