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Quotes About Ephemerality

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
~ Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
~ Wendell Berry
Life is short, yet sweet.
~ Euripides
Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.
~ Walter Savage Landor
It is good to be loved, even though it will not last.
~ E. Lockhart
It's good to be loved, even thought it will not last
~ E. Lockhart
We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.
~ Edith Schaeffer
Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime,For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower:Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time.
~ Edmund Spenser
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
~ Edmund Spenser
The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed uprooted- We shall not feel it again. We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the rain.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
They say, "There is nothing but our present life; we die, and we live, and nothing but Time destroys us." Of that they have no knowledge; they merely conjecture.
~ Anonymous
Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
~ Anonymous
Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it like clouds across the sky?
~ Anthony Doeer
The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness.
~ Anthony Doerr
The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness. That's God's truth.
~ Anthony Doerr
Each minute that passes is one fewer in this house. In this life.
~ Anthony Doerr
If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.
~ Frank Herbert
If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary. —THE STOLEN JOURNALS
~ Frank Herbert
Moreover, we forget things every day, so in a sense we are constantly dissolving into nothingness.
~ Frank Tallis
Seismic change can happen over a lifetime, or in an instant.
~ Romeo Dallaire
Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever
~ Rory Stewart
Minute by minute, a day passed.
~ Louise Erdrich
That's what life is, a bit of light that ends in darkness. But
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Invocar la posteridad es hacer un discurso a los gusanos.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine