Quotes About Ephemerality

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion.

There is no REASON to keep SEASONAL people around for a LIFETIME.

Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.

Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.

The meaning of life is that it ends

Live and enjoy your life today, might not be tomorrow

Everything Can Change in One Moment of Time

If the breath of life is taken, man turn to dust.

Time, the subtle thief of youth

From mornTo noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,A summer's day; and with the setting sunDropp'd from the zenith like a falling star.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

Yet they also had loved life. They had loved it the more, John would tell her, because it was fugitive; they had loved it for the sake of the surprise, the danger, the brittleness of the moment.

Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.

In real life sweet moments are short and dulled by time.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

I have whispered to you in the perfume of a rose; But the flower soon faded and was like me forgotten.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this, and I do not. Everything is unique—and insignificant.

Din tot ce-ai fost, nu mai ramîne decît o adiere patetica.

Totul a fost cândva. De aceea îmi pare viaÈ›a o unduire f?r? substrat È™i o leg?nare f?r? substan??. Lumea nu se repet?.

Anyone may now and then have the sense of occupying only a point and a moment; to have such a sense day and night, hour by hour, is less frequent, and it is from this experience, this datum, that one turns toward nirvana or sarcasm--or toward both at once.