Shunryu Suzuki

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.

Japanese Leader

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

Said Nursi

Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.

Turkish Theologian

Amy Bloom

The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.

American Writer

Norman Davies

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

British Historian

Malcolm Muggeridge

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

British Journalist

Steve Coogan

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

British Comedian

Use 'transience' when discussing things that exist only for a short time, like feelings or events.

Temporary Phenomena

'Transience' often relates to philosophical or literary discussions about life's fleeting nature.

Philosophical Concept

Metaphorically, 'transience' can describe feelings, relationships, or moments, not just physical objects.

Metaphorically Speaking

 or the high you get from a beautiful film when it sucks you into its wonderland, or the orgasmic ecstasy of falling in love, ineffability, magical transience spaces of mind that were characterized by feelings of selflessness and timelessness.

Jason Silva's Origin...

 And I love to dig a hole. So this piece was great fun because it was two days of digging in soft dirt. The next artist is Kay Overstry, and she's interested in ephemerality and transience. And in her most recent project,