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transitory
«A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
dwell, epitome, get over, golf course, purely, transitory
«I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
cared, cementing, cements, comparing, ephemeral, Helen, Helen Wills, Helen Wills Moody, like so, Moody, some other, sports, that much, transitory, wills
«All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
absolute, abstraction, beauties, contain, creamed, creams, does not exist, element, emotions, eternal, forms, general, manifestation, particular, phenomena, surface, surface of, The Absolute, The Cream, The Eternal, The General, transitory
«Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.»
«Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
betrayed, motion, muscle, transitory, vacancies, vacancy
«Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
brief, concerned, corner, fuss, fussed, fussing, obscure, obscures, obscurest, personally, phenomenon, transitory
«Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.»
«All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
expresses, hinders, human society, Human Touch, regardless, revolutionary, serves, survival, touches, transitory, various
«I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors? eyes ? a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby?s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| Keywords:
aesthetic, commensurate, compelled, contemplation, Continent, Dutch, enchanted, face to face, flowered, New World, pander, pandered, pandering, the Dutch, transitory, vanished, whispers
«All other loves are transitory, as long as people do not love their Lord and Master.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
transitory
