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Quotes About Ephemerality

El tiempo todo lo borra, pero también lo iguala y lo desfigura como si fuera un caleidoscopio infinito.
~ Julio Llamazares
Los años habian pasado borrándolo todo y lo que quedada era el humo de los recuerdos.
~ Julio Llamazares
Es natural que el tiempo lo borre todo, desde los sueños a las promesas y desde las estrellas a las fotografías.
~ Julio Llamazares
There's nothing permanent in the world
~ Junot Diaz
I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in its stationary state. Sand not only flows, but this very flow is the sand.
~ K?b? Abe
If those sweet lips, that goblet of wine, Yes, everything, ends in non-existence, Then remember, for as long as you exist, That you are only what you will be one day: Nothing. It's impossible to be less than that.
~ Kader Abdolah
Celestra Caine, you are about to fade." - FADE by Kailin Gow.
~ Kailin Gow
Yes, I know everything can disappear in a flash of light. That doesn't make anything less valuable.
~ Kamila Shamsie
You can try to organize your life into neat and organized sections. You can label it and categorize it. You can arrange it in any way you wish. But the minute you turn your head, it will become amorphous once
~ Kapil Gupta
My days have crackled and gone up in smoke.
~ Francis Thompson
Live every day as if it were your last. Spend your life hanging by a thread. Accept that you can fall from one moment to the next. And when that moment comes, rejoice, because the last day will be the first, and you will become the thread itself.
~ Franco Santoro
Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss.
~ Frank Cottrell Boyce
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Time is a great teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. —Hector Berlioz
~ Frank V. Cespedes
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
~ Franz Grillparzer
The meaning of life is that it stops.
~ Franz Kafka
Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.
~ French proverb
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Just as firewood does not become firewood again after it is ash, you do not return to birth after death.
~ Brad Warner
It is strange," the man said. "People get such a small amount of time. So many I've known say it—as soon as you feel you're getting a handle on things, the day is done, the night falls, and the light goes out.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Death comes, they whispered. Death comes to all. But life comes first. Cherish it.
~ Brandon Sanderson
as soon as you feel you're getting a handle on things, the day is done, the night falls, and the light goes out.
~ Brandon Sanderson
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.
~ Henry Miller
Do we weep when the sun sinks into the ocean? The full magnificence of the sun is revealed to us only in the few moments preceding and following its disappearance.
~ Henry Miller