Quotes About Ephemerality

No man lives forever and even as memory fades, so too will any remembrance of him.

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.

in human affairs everything is hastiness and farewell.

Waren sie nicht alle Reisende, die wussten, dass die eigene Existenz im Angesicht des Universums so flüchtig war wie ein Boxenstopp an der Autobahn?

Time is something of an enemy" she opined, "for us mortals. And yet I love it" - she fluttered her fingers in the air - "I love this moment, and it's a child of time.

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years later, Lazarus died again. Jesus healed the sick, but eventually caught some other disease. He fed the ten thousands, and the next day they were hungry again. But we remember his love. It wasn't that Jesus healed a leper but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don't, and that's what makes them more precious.

The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.

That part won't be hard at all; It's easy to love something when you know it's only for a finite amount of time.

We have always been going back, since birth, back toward not being alive.

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at.

Make good use of your time, it flies fast.

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.

Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.