Quotes About Ephemerality

Whatever has the nature to arise has the nature to cease.

Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

It is a fearful thing to love what time can touch.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills its pupils.

Von den Leben, die hellen. Von den Toden, die schnellen ORGES WÜNSCHLISTE

Hours fly...Flowers die.

Life is flowing away like water running out from a leaky vessel.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

life can end in less time than it takes to draw one breath.

You're dying right now. Right this minute.' He looked at his watch, said, 'Right this second,' then tapped it with his finger. 'See there? That second passed. It's gone. Not gonna come again. And while I'm talking to you, every second I'm talking, a second is passing. Gone. Count them up. Count them down. They're gone. Each one bringing you closer to your dying time.

Well, quite softly, one day following another, a spring on a winter, and an autumn after a summer, this wore away, piece by piece, crumb by crumb; it passed away, it is gone, I should say it has sunk; for something always remains at the bottom as one would say—a weight here, at one's heart.

Je voudrais arrêter le temps, arrêter l'heure. Mais elle va, elle va, elle passe, elle me prend de seconde en seconde un peu de moi pour le néant de demain. Et je ne revivrai jamais.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

It takes just one unattended moment for an hour to pass.

Moment after moment, everyone comes out from nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

Nothing lasts forever.

When they die no one will ever know that once they lived.