Quotes for All
Not bodies produce sensations, but element-complexes (sensation-complexes) constitute the bodies. When the physicist considers the bodies as the permanent reality, the ‘elements’ as the transient appearance, he does not realise that all ‘bodies’ are only mental symbols for element-complexes (sensation-complexes). Ernst Mach
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared. Erica Jong
The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning’s transient shower. Emma Lazarus
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power. Elbert Hubbard
Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse–a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment’s insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,–but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character. Edwin Percy Whipple
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven. Edward Young
Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the world’s movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last. Edward Hirsch
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. Edward Hopper
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by those readers who are insensible to the importance of laws and manners, while they peruse, with eager curiosity, the transient intrigues of a court, or the accidental event of a battle. Edward Gibbon
Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freedman, declared the separation; the most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure. Edward Gibbon