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What we describe as birth\n\nis no more than incipient change from a prior state, while dying\n\nis merely to quit it. 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the mighty bliss is fugitive:\n\nDiscolored sickness, anxious labor, come,\n\nAnd age, and death's inexorable doom.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Virgil", "slug": "virgil", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil" }, "book": { "title": "The Georgics", "slug": "the-georgics", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-georgics" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "youth", "slug": "youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virgil#Georgics_(29_BC)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:49:25" }, { "id": "02abb54b-3e0d-401f-b14a-1ba68f0012be", "slug": "im-sorry-for", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/maxims-and-reflections/im-sorry-for", "text": "I'm sorry for people who make a great to-do about the transitory nature of things and get lost in meditations of earthly nothingness. 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It sufficed that Mme. Swann did not appear, in the same attire and at the same moment, for the whole avenue to be altered. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. 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And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen King", "slug": "stephen-king", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king" }, "book": { "title": "The Wind through the Keyhole", "slug": "the-wind-through-the-keyhole", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-wind-through-the-keyhole" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#The_Wind_Through_The_Keyhole", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:18:40" }, { "id": "7733bbac-45a7-498a-9548-428e4703f0e8", "slug": "we-spread-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-vi-song-of-susannah/we-spread-the", "text": "We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it all back.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen King", "slug": "stephen-king", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king" }, "book": { "title": "The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah", "slug": "the-dark-tower-vi-song-of-susannah", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-vi-song-of-susannah" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#Vol._VI:_Song_of_Susannah", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:18:40" }, { "id": "b6d9e98f-3e45-4f46-991c-6d7a84045fe7", "slug": "theres-a-quote", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dustin-thao/youve-found-oliver/theres-a-quote", "text": "There's a quote from The Poetics of Space that sticks with me. Professor Clarke wrote it on the board the last day of class.\n\nIt is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. -Gaston Bachelard\n\nI've been thinking about this more lately, especially as I look back on my life. As much as we want to, we can't control time or keep it from moving forward. Maybe there's something beautiful about that, living with the uncertainty of what's to come. You never know what possibilities will be born out of it. But some things will always be certain. Like the sun rising in the morning. Or the leaves falling in the autumn and the cherry blossoms returning in the spring. That he and I will always be connected. And who knows? 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Even if you made books with pages of steel and diamond letters, they would some day crash into the sun and melt, together with our planet. Nothing is eternal, least of all in art. It doesn’t matter how long an author’s work continues to glimmer after his death. 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That's all, I thought as I sank down and my breathing grew deeper, aligned with his. Just as quickly as it started yesterday, it could be over tomorrow. It could all end with a big hug and a friendly kiss at the door. 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The watch is very old, purchased from a specialist dealer in a fortified arcade in Singapore. It is military ordnance. It speaks to the man of battles fought in another day. 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The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "haruki-murakami", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami" }, "book": { "title": "Kafka on the Shore", "slug": "kafka-on-the-shore", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/kafka-on-the-shore" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "change", "slug": "change", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kafka_on_the_Shore#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:18" }, { "id": "f62ec087-c433-4bd0-9526-011dfa779889", "slug": "i-thought-to-lose", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/the-rise-of-endymion/i-thought-to-lose", "text": "I thought—To lose all this forever?\n\nAnd I hallucinated Aenea’s voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Dan Simmons", "slug": "dan-simmons", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons" }, "book": { "title": "The Rise of Endymion", "slug": "the-rise-of-endymion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/the-rise-of-endymion" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 163, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" }, { "name": "loss", "slug": "loss", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons#The_Rise_of_Endymion_(1997)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:53" }, { "id": "2059e62d-999d-47f3-a845-0c74d4b31f9d", "slug": "life-is-brutal", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion/life-is-brutal", "text": "Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Dan Simmons", "slug": "dan-simmons", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons" }, "book": { "title": "Endymion", "slug": "endymion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 561, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons#Endymion_(1996)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:53" }, { "id": "0e1c0779-6685-464f-a4b8-aaff772154bc", "slug": "im-undecided-about", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/friend-of-my-youth/im-undecided-about", "text": "I'm undecided about the time we live in. This ongoing passage to oblivion. The disappearance of things you took for granted. Then there's the renaissance of things you never knew of, or presumed you'd never see again.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Amit Chaudhuri", "slug": "amit-chaudhuri", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri" }, "book": { "title": "Friend of My Youth", "slug": "friend-of-my-youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/friend-of-my-youth" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Amit_Chaudhuri#Friend_of_My_Youth_(2017)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:35" }, { "id": "e54a0854-baf5-4e9d-b16b-a7b1617fe252", "slug": "finally-she-mused", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mo-yan/red-sorghum/finally-she-mused", "text": "Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mo Yan", "slug": "mo-yan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mo-yan" }, "book": { "title": "Red Sorghum", "slug": "red-sorghum", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mo-yan/red-sorghum" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" }, { "name": "risk", "slug": "risk", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/risk" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mo_Yan#Red_Sorghum:_A_Novel_of_China_(1986/1987)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:27" }, { "id": "089dc1a1-3d5c-4aab-ab5f-764f91544a5c", "slug": "be-the-day", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/anne-of-windy-poplars/be-the-day", "text": "Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Lucy Maud Montgomery", "slug": "lucy-maud-montgomery", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery" }, "book": { "title": "Anne of Windy Poplars", "slug": "anne-of-windy-poplars", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/anne-of-windy-poplars" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lucy_Maud_Montgomery#Anne_of_Windy_Poplars_(1936)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:05" }, { "id": "50c8a538-99b3-4ecf-a688-66f1e61ee079", "slug": "the-legends-of-our", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age/the-legends-of-our", "text": "The legends of our age die one by one, like autumn leaves; and when they are gone, will we be lesser for their absence?\n\nIt seems cheap.\n\nWith his death imminent, the worlds feel emptier. Almost as cavernous as they did when Cassius fell. One by one, the titans of my youth disappear, and freed from their shadow, I do not feel liberated. I feel bereft.\n\nNothing is permanent. No one escapes.\n\n\"The bill comes at the end,\" I whisper.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Pierce Brown", "slug": "pierce-brown", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown" }, "book": { "title": "Dark Age", "slug": "dark-age", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierce_Brown#Dark_Age_(2019)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:00" }, { "id": "806eabe8-37e9-4047-a66f-88631e849c30", "slug": "did-the-stars", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/the-farming-of-bones/did-the-stars", "text": "'...Did the stars visit him upon me in caprice? To teach me that a lifetime can be vast as a hundred years or sudden as a few breaths? Enjoy this one you have left. It all passes so fast. In the time it takes to draw a breath.' (p116)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Edwidge Danticat", "slug": "edwidge-danticat", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat" }, "book": { "title": "The Farming of Bones", "slug": "the-farming-of-bones", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/the-farming-of-bones" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edwidge_Danticat#The_Farming_of_Bones_(1998)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:52" }, { "id": "4652e486-c729-4aed-80b7-4c0640f3f3b3", "slug": "again-be-patient", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune/again-be-patient", "text": "Again, be patient. 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Almost every sentient being who ever lived belonged to a society that doesn’t exist any more. Why should we be any different?”\n\n“But our deeds will remain.”\n\n“If we’re lucky. There’s every chance they won’t survive either.”\n\n“That’s so bleak, Rudd.”\n\n“Bracing, I prefer to think.”\n\n“But if nothing we do here has any guarantee of lasting, if even the best gestures have only a slim chance of outliving us—is there any reason not to just give up?”\n\n“Every reason in the world,” Rudd said. “We’re here and we’re alive. 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So did societies, be they city-sized states or galactic empires encompassing thousands of solar systems. Everything came and went, everything was new and bright with promise once and old and worn out later, and everything left a small, diminishing stain on eternity, a mark that time would eventually erase.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Alastair Reynolds", "slug": "alastair-reynolds", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds" }, "book": { "title": "House of Suns", "slug": "house-of-suns", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/house-of-suns" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 240, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds#House_of_Suns_(2008)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:40" }, { "id": "d0ee1c28-006d-4c95-8a60-b7474921ebfe", "slug": "the-bitterness-of-joy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/delusions-master/the-bitterness-of-joy", "text": "The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. 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This man had spent forty years of his life on beaches or by the sides of swimming pools, chatting pleasantly with summer visitors and rich idlers. He is to be seen, in his bathing costume, in the corners and backgrounds of holiday snaps, among groups of happy people, but no one knew his name and why he was there. And no one noticed when one day he vanished from the photographs. I did not dare tell Hutte, but I felt that \" the beach man \" was myself . Though it would not surprised him if I had confessed it. Hutte was always saying that, in the end, we we're all \" beach men \" and that the sand keeps the traces of our footsteps only a few moments \"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Patrick Modiano", "slug": "patrick-modiano", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-modiano" }, "book": { "title": "Missing Person", "slug": "missing-person", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-modiano/missing-person" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patrick_Modiano#Missing_Person_(1978_)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:07" }, { "id": "eed7d787-c285-4c44-8190-cf53859e1c9d", "slug": "the-last-days", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurie-lee/cider-with-rosie/the-last-days", "text": "The last days of my childhood were also the last days of the village. 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nothing the gods make endures forever.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Megan Whalen Turner", "slug": "megan-whalen-turner", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/megan-whalen-turner" }, "book": { "title": "The Queen of Attolia", "slug": "the-queen-of-attolia", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/megan-whalen-turner/the-queen-of-attolia" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Megan_Whalen_Turner#The_Queen_of_Attolia_(2000)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:39" }, { "id": "46c9f1fc-0dbb-431a-a195-32e7dba27751", "slug": "beauty-is-beautiful", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design/beauty-is-beautiful", "text": "Beauty is beautiful because it is doomed to perish!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Philip José Farmer", "slug": "philip-jose-farmer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer" }, "book": { "title": "The Dark Design", "slug": "the-dark-design", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 448, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "beauty", "slug": "beauty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer#The_Dark_Design_(1977)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:31" }, { "id": "cbcbbfda-83ef-42c7-b841-26572c77408f", "slug": "all-we-can", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/geoff-dyer/yoga-for-people-who-cant-be-bothered-to-do-it/all-we-can", "text": "All we can do is keep applying the creosote, propping ourselves up with health and success, trying to keep the rain and the damp and the rot at bay for a little longer, trying to postpone the moment of complete collapse of abandonment for the same reason that one waits as long as possible for the alcoholic drink of the day: because the longer you leave it, the better it will feel. (p. 227).", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Geoff Dyer", "slug": "geoff-dyer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/geoff-dyer" }, "book": { "title": "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It", "slug": "yoga-for-people-who-cant-be-bothered-to-do-it", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/geoff-dyer/yoga-for-people-who-cant-be-bothered-to-do-it" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "old age", "slug": "old-age", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Geoff_Dyer#Yoga_For_People_Who_Can't_Be_Bothered_To_Do_It_(1993)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:29" }, { "id": "3a06ab1b-5696-4d7b-bf22-ea6d0ef610f3", "slug": "how-oddly-situated", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yukio-mishima/runaway-horses/how-oddly-situated", "text": "How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at the age of thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the present has left him not a single vivid impression. And therefore he persists in feeling that nothing more than a fragile barrier separates him from his youth. He is forever hearing with the utmost clarity the sounds of this neighboring domain, but there is no way to penetrate the barrier.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Yukio Mishima", "slug": "yukio-mishima", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yukio-mishima" }, "book": { "title": "Runaway Horses", "slug": "runaway-horses", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yukio-mishima/runaway-horses" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "youth", "slug": "youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima#Runaway_Horses_(1969)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:25" }, { "id": "db730e79-b269-4370-9269-6953140d4c2d", "slug": "he-had-once", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcewan/the-child-in-time/he-had-once", "text": "He had once felt light on the ground. He used to think his life was an open-ended adventure, he used to give things away, it amused him when the unexpected happened, benevolent coincidences used to bear him along. When had all that stopped?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ian McEwan", "slug": "ian-mcewan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcewan" }, "book": { "title": "The Child in Time", "slug": "the-child-in-time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcewan/the-child-in-time" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 103, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "youth", "slug": "youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ian_McEwan#The_Child_in_Time_(1987)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:58" }, { "id": "2f5113cf-0271-4ebc-bbe0-f944c3507465", "slug": "there-are-people", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-rodriguez/darling/there-are-people", "text": "There are people in every age who come early or late to a sense of the futility of the world. Some people, such as the monks of the desert, flee the entanglements of the world to rush toward eternity. But even for those who remain in the world, the approach of eternity is implacable. “The glacier knocks in the cupboard, / The desert sighs in the bed,” was W. H. Auden’s mock-prophetic forecast. He meant the desert is incipient in the human condition. Time melts away from us. Even in luxuriant weather, even in luxuriant wealth, even in luxuriant youth, we know our bodies will fail; our buildings will fall to ruin.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Richard Rodriguez", "slug": "richard-rodriguez", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-rodriguez" }, "book": { "title": "Darling", "slug": "darling", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-rodriguez/darling" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "meaning of life", "slug": "meaning-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" }, { "name": "eternity", "slug": "eternity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/eternity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Rodriguez#Darling:_A_Spiritual_Autobiography_(2013)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:47" }, { "id": "166dfcca-ee00-4a2d-ac5f-38fde037e64b", "slug": "intimacy-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-rodriguez/hunger-of-memory/intimacy-is-not", "text": "Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close. Faces move away from the window. Time passes. Voices recede into the dark. Death finally quiets the voice. And there is no way to deny it. No way to stand in the crowd, uttering one’s family language.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Richard Rodriguez", "slug": "richard-rodriguez", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-rodriguez" }, "book": { "title": "Hunger of Memory", "slug": "hunger-of-memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-rodriguez/hunger-of-memory" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Rodriguez#Hunger_of_Memory:_The_Education_of_Richard_Rodriguez_(1982)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:46" }, { "id": "8bdb0098-754d-4421-a771-cee5b125f311", "slug": "i-like-to-see", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/villette/i-like-to-see", "text": "I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charlotte Brontë", "slug": "charlotte-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Villette", "slug": "villette", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/villette" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" }, { "name": "flowers", "slug": "flowers", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/flowers" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#Villette_(1853)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:42" }, { "id": "3dea5321-06ac-4577-9179-e8db5a0b78e6", "slug": "all-life-is-impermanent", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/the-sun-my-heart/all-life-is-impermanent", "text": "All life is impermanent. We are all children of the Earth, and, at some time, she will take us back to herself again. We are continually arising from Mother Earth, being nurtured by her, and then returning to her. Like us, plants are born, live for a period of time, and then return to the Earth. When they decompose, they fertilize our gardens. Living vegetables and decomposing vegetables are part of the same reality. Without one, the other cannot be. After six months, compost becomes fresh vegetables again. Plants and the Earth rely on each other. Whether the Earth is fresh, beautiful, and green, or arid and parched depends on the plants.\n\nIt also depends on us. Our way of walking on the Earth has a great influence on animals and plants. We have killed so many animals and plants and destroyed their environments. Many are now extinct. In turn, our environment is now harming us. We are like sleepwalkers, not knowing what we are doing or where we are heading. Whether we can wake up or not depends on whether we can walk mindfully on our Mother Earth. The future of all life, including our own, depends on our mindful steps.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thich Nhat Hanh", "slug": "thich-nhat-hanh", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh" }, "book": { "title": "The Sun My Heart", "slug": "the-sun-my-heart", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/the-sun-my-heart" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 3, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "nature", "slug": "nature", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh#The_Sun_My_Heart_(1996)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:26" }, { "id": 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The idea made me feel as if I were being held underwater. Then I thought, you’re being so ridiculous; you have almost three more years together, and I could breathe again. 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Maybe it's existential. I'm talking about the individual US citizen's deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I have and that everybody has except nobody ever talks about it except existentialists in convoluted French prose. Or Pascal. Our smallness, our insignificance and mortality, yours and mine, the thing that we all spend all our time not thinking about directly, that we are tiny and at the mercy of large forces and that time is always passing and that every day we've lost one more day that will never come back and our childhoods are over and our adolescence and the vigor of youth and soon our adulthood, that everything we see around us all the time is decaying and passing, it's all passing away, and so are we, so am I, and given how fast the first forty-two years have shot by it's not going to be long before I too pass away, whoever imagined that there was a more truthful way to put it than \"die,\" \"pass away,\" the very sound of it makes me feel the way I feel at dusk on a wintry Sunday--... And not only that, but everybody who knows me or even knows I exist will die, and then everybody who knows those people and might even conceivably have even heard of me will die, and so on, and the gravestones and monuments we spend money to have pour in to make sure we're remembered, these'll last what-- a hundred years? two hundred?-- and they'll crumble, and the grass and insects my decomposition will go to feed will die, and their offspring, or if I'm cremated the trees that are nourished by my windblown ash will die or get cut down and decay, and my urn will decay, and that before maybe three of four generations it will be like I never existed, not only will I have passed away but it will be like I was never here, and people in 2104 or whatever will no more think of Stuart A. Nichols Jr. than you or I think of John T. Smith, 1790 to 1864, of Livingston, Virginia, or some such. That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine, in fact, probably that's why the manic US obsession with production, produce, produce, impact the world, contribute, shape things, to help distract us from how little and totally insignificant and temporary we are... The post-production capitalist has something to do with the death of civics. But so does fear of smallness and death and everything being on fire.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Foster Wallace", "slug": "david-foster-wallace", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-foster-wallace" }, "book": { "title": "The Pale King", "slug": "the-pale-king", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-foster-wallace/the-pale-king" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "fear", "slug": "fear", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace#The_Pale_King_(2011)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:36" }, { "id": "58a5a1aa-3d79-4faa-8f72-25331c8654fc", "slug": "all-things-pass", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ/all-things-pass", "text": "All things pass away and thou equally with them. Look that thou cleave not to them lest thou be taken with them and perish.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Kempis", "slug": "thomas-kempis", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis" }, "book": { "title": "The Imitation of Christ", "slug": "the-imitation-of-christ", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_%C3%A0_Kempis#The_Imitation_of_Christ_(c._1418)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:27" }, { "id": "2ddd9529-bcdf-487c-9377-91a70ca1a14a", "slug": "how-many-times", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ/how-many-times", "text": "How many times hast thou heard how one was slain by the sword, another was drowned, another falling from on high broke his neck, another died at the table, another whilst at play! One died by fire, another by the sword, another by the pestilence, another by the robber. 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What has been and is gone does not come again.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Gene Wolfe", "slug": "gene-wolfe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe" }, "book": { "title": "The Claw Of The Conciliator", "slug": "the-claw-of-the-conciliator", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-claw-of-the-conciliator" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun#The_Claw_of_the_Conciliator_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:24" }, { "id": "15ac2bfa-41e2-4b52-854f-a4bddcdf7717", "slug": "the-years-between", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/tales-of-the-jazz-age/the-years-between", "text": "The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. 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Moment to moment, day by day—each so full, and oh so lovely—and then gone forever, gone before there was a chance to absorb them properly, to really live them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson" }, "book": { "title": "Blue Mars", "slug": "blue-mars", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 566, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "happiness", "slug": "happiness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Blue_Mars_(1996)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:46" }, { "id": "5b360b68-3207-4eb1-a747-12ad7462267a", "slug": "but-nothing-lasts", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/green-mars/but-nothing-lasts", "text": "But nothing lasts, not even stone, not even despair.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson" }, "book": { "title": "Green Mars", "slug": "green-mars", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/green-mars" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 127, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" }, { "name": "despair", "slug": "despair", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/despair" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Green_Mars_(1993)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:44" }, { "id": "68bbaa1c-b2f4-4039-9272-71b49837f1a0", "slug": "judy-8-is-watching", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-at-rest/judy-8-is-watching", "text": "[Judy, 8, is watching TV] He tells Judy, \"Better pack it in, sweetie. Another big day tomorrow: we're going to go to the beach and sailing.\" But his voice comes out listless, and perhaps that is the saddest loss time brings, the lessening of excitement about anything.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Hoyer Updike", "slug": "john-hoyer-updike", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike" }, "book": { "title": "Rabbit at Rest", "slug": "rabbit-at-rest", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-at-rest" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "old age", "slug": "old-age", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Updike#Rabbit_at_Rest_(1990)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:30" }, { "id": "683ee1a0-f1ec-4f59-8802-21b3e6954bf8", "slug": "he-feels-a-stifling", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-at-rest/he-feels-a-stifling", "text": "...he feels a stifling uselessness in things, a kind of atomic decay whereby the precious glowing present turns, with each tick of the clock, into the leaden slag of history.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Hoyer Updike", "slug": "john-hoyer-updike", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike" }, "book": { "title": "Rabbit at Rest", "slug": "rabbit-at-rest", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-at-rest" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Updike#Rabbit_at_Rest_(1990)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:30" }, { "id": "ebbc1f7a-a652-45f1-8bd7-a74bbe1e7a00", "slug": "only-a-moment", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/youth/only-a-moment", "text": "Only a moment; a moment of strength, of romance, of glamour — of youth!... A flick of sunshine upon a strange shore, the time to remember, the time for a sigh, and — goodbye! — Night — Goodbye!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Conrad", "slug": "joseph-conrad", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad" }, "book": { "title": "Youth", "slug": "youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/youth" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "youth", "slug": "youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad#Youth_(1902)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:11" }, { "id": "7e403ba1-7214-4cfe-ae3c-194619c6d008", "slug": "i-remember-my-youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/youth/i-remember-my-youth", "text": "I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more — the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort — to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires — and expires, too soon — too soon before life itself.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Conrad", "slug": "joseph-conrad", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad" }, "book": { "title": "Youth", "slug": "youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/youth" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "youth", "slug": "youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad#Youth_(1902)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:11" }, { "id": "d448a605-c5df-4756-addd-dfeefcdf0860", "slug": "what-course-of-action", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/the-past-through-tomorrow/what-course-of-action", "text": "“What course of action do you favor?”\n\n“Me? Why, none. Mary, if there is any one thing I have learned in the past couple of centuries, it’s this: These things pass. Wars and depressions and Prophets and Covenants—they pass. The trick is to stay alive through them.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Robert A. 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But gold was also the color of sunset, of autumn.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "slug": "arthur-c-clarke", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke" }, "book": { "title": "Childhood's End", "slug": "childhoods-end", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/childhoods-end" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Childhood's_End#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:52" }, { "id": "e3373df8-e872-4194-bc25-b170066ddd79", "slug": "we-fear-death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hermann-hesse/narcissus-and-goldmund/we-fear-death", "text": "We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.\n\n(Alternate translation by Geoffrey Dunlop: We shrink from death, shuddering at our frail instability, sadly watching the flowers fade again and again, knowing in our hearts how soon we shall be as withered as they. So that when, as craftsmen, we carve images, or seek laws to formulate our thoughts, we do it all to save what little we may from the linked, never-ending dance of death. Ch. 10", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Hermann Hesse", "slug": "hermann-hesse", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hermann-hesse" }, "book": { "title": "Narcissus and Goldmund", "slug": "narcissus-and-goldmund", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hermann-hesse/narcissus-and-goldmund" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "art", "slug": "art", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse#Narcissus_and_Goldmund_(1930)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:48" }, { "id": "9befc423-47b6-4ed7-bcf4-1bd885ec5814", "slug": "my-great-pleasure", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-palace-of-love/my-great-pleasure", "text": "My great pleasure is creation—of this I never tire. Some of my guests have complained of a gentle melancholy which hangs in the air; I agree that the mood exists. The explanation, I believe, arises from the fugacity of beauty, the tragic pavanne to which all of us step.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jack Vance", "slug": "jack-vance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance" }, "book": { "title": "The Palace of Love", "slug": "the-palace-of-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-palace-of-love" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 415, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "art", "slug": "art", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art" }, { "name": "beauty", "slug": "beauty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Palace_of_Love_(1967)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": 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go, grow and fall' — Even the paper bags in my garbage pit say 'We are mantransformed paper bags made out of wood pulp, we are kinda proud of being paper bags as long as that will be possible, but we'll be mush again with our sisters the leaves come rainy season' — The tree stumps say 'We are tree stumps torn out of the ground by men, sometimes by the wind, we have big tendrils full of earth that drink out of the earth' — Men say 'We are men, we pull out tree stumps, we make paper bags, we think wise thoughts, we make lunch, we look around, we make a great effort to realise everything is the same.'", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jack Kerouac", "slug": "jack-kerouac", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac" }, "book": { "title": "Big Sur", "slug": "big-sur", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/big-sur" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { 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(That's what makes it endurable.)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Heller", "slug": "joseph-heller", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller" }, "book": { "title": "SOMETHING HAPPENED", "slug": "something-happened", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/something-happened" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Something_Happened#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:13" }, { "id": "071ac003-8b56-4c84-bc21-f2765e4bc7a1", "slug": "the-years-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/something-happened/the-years-are", "text": "The years are too short, the days are too long.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Heller", "slug": "joseph-heller", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller" }, "book": { "title": "SOMETHING HAPPENED", "slug": "something-happened", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/something-happened" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Heller#Something_Happened_(1974)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:13" }, { "id": "c283f49b-29f8-48bc-8e37-7c9e7e4ded11", "slug": "the-greater-part", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-w-watts/the-wisdom-of-insecurity/the-greater-part", "text": "The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Alan W. Watts", "slug": "alan-w-watts", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-w-watts" }, "book": { "title": "The Wisdom of Insecurity", "slug": "the-wisdom-of-insecurity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-w-watts/the-wisdom-of-insecurity" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 32, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "change", "slug": "change", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" }, { "name": "joy", "slug": "joy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Watts#The_Wisdom_of_Insecurity_(1951)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:11" }, { "id": "98645017-563a-4af4-b564-b6fdc7dedf02", "slug": "in-all-of-my-universe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune/in-all-of-my-universe", "text": "In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing]] relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "God Emperor of Dune", "slug": "god-emperor-of-dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "change", "slug": "change", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#God_Emperor_of_Dune_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:54" }, { "id": "9ebae452-c355-4d27-acec-17172a671729", "slug": "the-flesh-surrenders", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah/the-flesh-surrenders", "text": "The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. 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The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Robert M. 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For the Elves the world moves, and it moves both very swift and very slow. Swift, because they themselves change little, and all else fleets by: it is a grief to them. Slow, because they do not count the running years, not for themselves. Yet beneath the Sun all things must wear to an end at last.'", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "J.R.R. 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Sooner or later, as Grahame Coats himself would have delighted in assuring you, even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Neil Gaiman", "slug": "neil-gaiman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman" }, "book": { "title": "Anansi Boys", "slug": "anansi-boys", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/anansi-boys" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anansi_Boys#Chapter_6_-_In_Which_Fat_Charlie_Fails_to_Get_Home,_Even_by_Taxi", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:12" }, { "id": "de502480-5f60-4327-998e-cde47b2bc0c7", "slug": "we-are-small", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/coraline/we-are-small", "text": "We are small but we are many, we are many we are small; we were here before you rose, we will be here when you fall.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Neil Gaiman", "slug": "neil-gaiman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman" }, "book": { "title": "Coraline", "slug": "coraline", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/coraline" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman#Coraline_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:11" }, { "id": "a32548ae-f909-4334-8a11-66fbe0773804", "slug": "one-day-every", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods/one-day-every", "text": "One day every soldier in the empire has to shower in the blood of your sacrificial bull. The next day they don't even remember your birthday.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Neil Gaiman", "slug": "neil-gaiman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman" }, "book": { "title": "American Gods", "slug": "american-gods", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" }, { "name": "mythology", "slug": "mythology", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mythology" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/American_Gods#Chapter_8", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:09" }, { "id": "26e17278-7e13-4564-b361-718bb42d9d1d", "slug": "sweet-day-so-cool", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple/sweet-day-so-cool", "text": "Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,\n\nThe bridal of the earth and sky;\n\nThe dew shall weep thy fall tonight,\n\nFor thou must die.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George Herbert", "slug": "george-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "The Temple", "slug": "the-temple", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Herbert#The_Temple_(1633)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:00" }, { "id": "42e761ea-e194-4565-be80-904d85529dc3", "slug": "even-in-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/the-town/even-in-the", "text": "... even in the folly of youth we know that nothing lasts, but ... even in that folly we are afraid that maybe Nothing will last, that maybe Nothing will last forever, and anything is better than Nothing.... So now, as another poet sings, That Fancy passed me by And nothing will remain; which, praise the gods, is a damned lie since, praise, O gods! 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The first quarter of it is gone before we know how to use it; the last quarter finds us incapable of enjoying life. At first we do not know how to live; and when we know how to live it is too late. In the interval between these two useless extremes we waste three-fourths of our time sleeping, working, sorrowing, enduring restraint and every kind of suffering. 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Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. 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and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in—glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a Revolution! And what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. 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And though you survive yourself, you must watch death take away the world of your youth, little by little.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Isaac Asimov", "slug": "isaac-asimov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov" }, "book": { "title": "I, Asimov", "slug": "i-asimov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 538, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#I._Asimov:_A_Memoir_(1994)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:25" }, { "id": "0f43af2e-a365-40ac-b783-90b4d4f7b676", "slug": "seldon-found-himself", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/forward-the-foundation/seldon-found-himself", "text": "Seldon found himself raging at the passage of time.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Isaac Asimov", "slug": "isaac-asimov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov" }, "book": { "title": "Forward the Foundation", "slug": "forward-the-foundation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/forward-the-foundation" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Forward_the_Foundation_(1993)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:23" }, { "id": "f2c3b8fd-0b71-4fc0-b9b9-181ff24042f4", "slug": "fifty-years-i-hackneyed", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot/fifty-years-i-hackneyed", "text": "“Fifty years,” I hackneyed, “is a long time.”\n\n“Not when you’re looking back at them,” she said. “You wonder how they vanished so quickly.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Isaac Asimov", "slug": "isaac-asimov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov" }, "book": { "title": "I, Robot", "slug": "i-robot", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 8, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#I,_Robot_(1950)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:18" }, { "id": "2ad1d25d-e82d-43e3-aab1-baae3de7de6e", "slug": "i-am-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-fountains-of-paradise/i-am-the", "text": "“I am the King.” Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones — scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago — was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Arthur C. 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Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. Just as we should travel down if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth's surface.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "H.G. 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