Quotes About Ephemerality

Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.

Life is long. But it goes fast.

Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.

Life doesn't last, art doesn't last

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute.

life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.

There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. None of us knows how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifty years -I like living as if I only have two days

It's all just time filler until we die.

There is only now', he says, 'and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.

For a minute there it was really good. It was really, really good. Wasn't it good? Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for too long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.

Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.

Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for too long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.

We deceive ourselves into thinking life is long, but fire reminds us—it is a flickering. Life is a flickering—and then it is gone. So, we must make the most of it.