Quotes About Ephemerality

I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.

From pulp you are and to pulp you shall return.

Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

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!

A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

I want to live my life like an incandescent lightbulb. Burn brightly my entire life, and then one day suddenly go out.

I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)

When you lie dead no one will remember or long for you later. You do not share the roses of Pieria. Unseen here and in the house of Hades, flown away, you will flitter among dim corpses.

Life is short. You've got to take what you can while you can.

Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

Time goes from present to past.

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.

What came is gone forever every time