Quotes About Ephemerality

People Die...Beauty Fades...Love Changes...And You Will Always Be Alone

Impermanence underlies experience.

D'murr no longer needed to concern himself with the mundane affairs of humans, so trivial were they, so limited and short-sighted: political machinations, populations milling about like ants in a disturbed hill, lives flickering bright and dull like sparks from a campfire. His former life was only a vague and fading memory, without specific names or faces. He saw images, but ignored them. He could never go back to what he had been.

It is said that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all the universe—that nothing remains in its original state, that each day, each hour, each moment, there is change. —Panoplia Propheticus of the Bene Gesserit O

Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.

What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

70 milyon y?l, bunun ancak milyonda birine eÅŸit bir süre yaÅŸayabilen insan için ne ifade eder? Yaln?zca bir güncük uçan ve günü sonsuzmuÅŸ gibi alg?layan kelebeklere benziyoruz

Time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, Loss, Loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.

Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.

A month went by quickly. It didn't want to hang around.

Men come and go, but dust accumulates.

Nothing holds out these days, and next thing you know we'll be counting those who are famous by days.

Impermanence means that everything changes and that nothing remains the same in any consecutive moments. And although things change every moment, they still cannot be accurately described as the same or as different from what they were a moment ago.

The golden moments ?n the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —George Eliot

there is no good in knowing people when you are going right away from them in a short time, and may never meet them again.

She was one of those women who are usually referred to in the past tense, of whom one says: 'She had a certain freshness and bloom about her,' and whose freshness and bloom passed unnoticed even when she still had them.

come on, sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me. —RUMI

No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

The trouble with "now" is that no matter how much you wish it would, it doesn't last forever. But then... other than a grudge...what does?

Life is fleeting, constantly spiralling into the past. And all we're ever able to hold on to is the precious present.

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.

Lord, help me to know How fleeting my time on earth is. Help me to know how limited is my life

life will sit on the tips of our tongues