Fleeting World Quotes

• Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Dream, Buddhist

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• But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Needs, Calling, Way

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.55, Vintage

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• Regard this fleeting world like this:
  Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn,
  like bubbles on a fast-moving stream,
  like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass,
  like a candle flickering in a strong wind...
  echoes, mirages, and phantoms, hallucinations,
  and like a dream.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Strong, Morning

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• If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.

  Bai Juyi

  Dream, Long, Age

  Bai Juyi, “At The End Of Spring”

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• The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.

  Rumi

  Wine, Ache, Fleeting

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:
  
  Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
  Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
  Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
  
  So is all conditioned existence to be seen.

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Dream, Clouds

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