Fleeting World Quotes

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

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  Bai Juyi

  Dream   Fleeting World   Long  

  Bai Juyi, “At The End Of Spring”

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

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  Rumi

  Wine   Fleeting World   Ache  

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

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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.

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  Gautama Buddha

  Dream   Strong   Morning  

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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.

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  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fleeting World   Needs   Calling  

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

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• 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

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  Gautama Buddha

  Summer   Dream   Buddhist  

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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.

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  Gautama Buddha

  Summer   Dream   Clouds  

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