Quotes About Ephemerality

Time goes faster the more hollow it is.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

Let us live and love, nor give a damn what sour old men say. The sun that sets may rise again, but when our light has sunk into the earth it is gone forever.

What a woman tells her lover in desire should be written out on air & running water.

Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua ((What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water)

This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive

My life began at five years old. Knowing that I would die instilled something in me that I carry to this day: the awareness that, despite time being infinite, my time was limited, my time was running out. I realised that my hour and someone else's hour are not equal. We cannot spend it the same way, we cannot think of it in the same way.

We forget that every fervor will subside.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

Gratitude's got a short half-life, Clarice.

What was one day, taken for instance from the moment one sat down to the midday meal to the same moment four-and-twenty hours afterwards? It was, to be sure, four-and-twenty hours—but equally it was the simple sum of nothings.

It is often remarked that nothing we do now will matter in a million years. But if that is true, then by the same token, nothing that will be the case in a million years matters now. In particular, it does not matter now that in million years nothing we do now will matter.

Los hombres dicen que el tiempo pasa....el tiempo dice que los hombres mueren

Death is something you can add to every day.

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.

Flowers are a lot like friendships - beautiful but not meant to last.

The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But even in their lifetime they do not enjoy them without bitterness, weariness and fear, for the very things whence they derive their pleasures often carry with them the seeds of sorrow.

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.

Beauty is fleeting. We must enjoy what we have before time steals it away.

The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.

Days like these go on for years. It's the ones you want to last that slip away—one, two, three—in seconds.

don't you think youth comes at the wrong time? When we haven't lived at all. It comes and then it's gone, and we don't even notice.

Time is the fire in which we burn. Gene Roddenberry

Fire existed only for a moment, remade with every passing second, constantly replaced by newly-created flames. While the burning materials might be of this world and contaminated by chaos, the actual tongues of fire were untouched. They were free from corruption as they winked in and out of existence.