Quotes About Ephemerality

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then. Then is the opposite of now. So saying now obliterates it's meaning, turning it into exactly what it isn't.

Shiki fu i ku, ku fu i shiki.70

I've always thought time was a little iffy, myself.

She watched him recede into the past as he stood...each successive moment of him passing before her eyes and being lost forever.

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

They had likely been together twenty times, an entire world created in just days.

Life was short, it was over in an instant, but some things lasted. Hate and love, kindness and cruelty, all lingered and, in their case, all had been passed on.

He kept thinking about the life span of a mayfly, and all the time he had wasted, and frankly he wasn't willing to waste any more.

He could have left out the fact that one had but a few hours to live, while the other had another life entirely still before him. This one. With her arms around her

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.

What came is gone forever every time

No matter how great and glorious the making, time will unmake it. No matter how strong the word, strong the thought, strong the law, all must return to chaos.

The price of being alive is that someday you aren't.

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Content and peace of mind are valuable things: I could wish, my dear friend, that these precious jewels were less transitory.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]

While we wait for life, life passes

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.