O quam cito tranist gloria mundi is a phrase in the The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis. It means "Oh, how quickly passes the glory of the world."
A related and rather better known phrase is sic transit gloria mundi, which means "Thus passes the glory of the world." A variation on that phrase occurs at the end of the science fiction novel A Canticle for Leibowitz. When the last monk enters the space ship, he pauses in the open hatchway and says sic transit mundum, which means "Thus passes the world".
cito adv quickly, soon
sic adv thus
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