Quotes About Ephemerality

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

A thing which fades With no outward sign - Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!

As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!

In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.

Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

Nature never remembers, that's why she's beautiful.

Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe, come touch the fire of instantaneous blue, come before its petals are consumed.

Nature has always been and always will be, as far as my tiny brain can understand, miraculous. Except, nature won't last because the world won't.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

Life is a constant process of dying.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.