Transience Quotes

“Another suitcase in another hall.”

“All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.”

“The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.”

“Stardom is a flickering flame.”

“These flowers, which were splendour and joy, waking at the dawn of the morning, will be in the evening a vain pity, sleeping in the arms of the cold night.”

“Grand Hotel... always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.”

“The whole world is a hotel. People come, people go. Some stay for a night, some for a lifetime.”

“How strangely things decay and die.”

“Loveliest of lovely things are they, on earth, that soonest pass away.”

“The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.”

“I'm just a voice that's passing through.”

“That's what life is, just a little heat that moves from one place to another.”

“To me, the whole idea of fame is a drag. It’s all based on a fad.”

“World records are only borrowed.”

“The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.”

“A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.”

“For I know how love is passing.”

“They are not long, the days of wine and roses.”

“For a little while we are lords of all the earth.”

“In Hollywood, you can be forgotten in the time it takes to draw a breath.”