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Quotes About Ephemerality

How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?
~ Pope Francis
Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.
~ Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
~ Bertrand Russell
All life is dying life – including the life of God.
~ Don Cupitt
Cease, cows, life is short.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stop and consider! life is but a day
~ John Keats
Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]
~ Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
~ Iris Chang
Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
~ Isaac Watts
Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.
~ Emily Haines
O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
~ Francis Bacon
Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing gold can stay.
~ Robert Frost
Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!
~ Samuel Johnson
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
~ Seneca the Younger
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
~ Thomas Browne
Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.
~ Tori Amos