Transience

To describe happiness is to diminish it

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind

While we are postponing, life speeds by

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity

Paper napkins never return from a laundry - nor love from a trip to the law courts

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

Life is too short to be small