Quotes About Ephemerality

Meanwhile, days pass.

For what is a flower but lifes expressed passion for itself. Sudden and brief, but certain and eternal at the same time

You know some minutes warn you they're going to be mighty short and you'd better take a snapshot of 'em while you can. ("Golden Baby")

one of the many mass-produced particles of time

and the whole apparition only ever known backwards already too late now almost gone

And so he goes on dwindling away maybe through too much prayer is now too rarefied to touch or settle anywhere

Three people in the snow getting rid of themselves breath by breath

Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

The rest of them never considered time, how it moves both so quickly and so slowly that it's always just beyond your grasp.

We're like—we're like the Backstreet Boys in a way—only dead.

Today is here yesterday is gone and tommorow never comes.

Cent soixante-cinq minutes creuses et moches pour dix secondes de splendeur, cela correspondait aux proportions de l'existence humaine: soixante-dix années de vie pour une semaine d'extase.

Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.

We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.

I tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don't even mention my name anymore.

I was making commercial films like 'Chocolate' and 'Hate Story.' Then came a time when I realised that such stories only entertain for a week, and then we forget about them.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." —CROWFOOT, CHIEF OF THE SIKSIKA FIRST NATION, 1890

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

You will not be in heaven two seconds before you cry out, "Why did I place so much importance on things that were so temporary? What was I thinking? Why did I waste so much time, energy, and concern on what wasn't going to last?

God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.

Senhor, faze-me lembrar de quão breve será o meu tempo na terra. Faze-me lembrar de que os meus dias estão contados e que a minha vida é efêmera. Salmos 39.4, NLT

time fleets, youth fades, life is an empty dream

Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing our youth, our beauty, and our bodies.

Nothing gold can stay.