Quotes About Ephemerality

But he's a fool who doesn't see how swift the wings of youth are, and how near the cradle lies to the grave.

It got late, very early.

Lo que indefinida y vertiginosamente cambia no tiene consistencia ni realidad, es tránsito perpetuo, y no sustancia.

BREVITY. The quality that makes cigarettes, speeches, love affairs and ocean voyages bearable.

The first breath is the beginning of death.

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Golf is long, and life is fleeting...

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather be a streaming meteor than a sleepy and permanent planet. I would rather burn out in a blaze of streaming glory than be stifled like dry rot. I shall use my time.

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

Time is the strangest substance known to man. You can't see, touch, hear, smell, taste or avoid it. Time makes you stronger-minded but weaker-bodied, gradually transforming you from blushing grape to ornery, grouching raisin. Time is the most precious thing you have, yet you're happiest when you're wasting it. Time will outlive you, your offspring, your offspring's robots and your offspring's robots' springs.

For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.

Starting to believe Life is just a sigh of Death.

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

That beautiful day passed just as the saddest ones do, since the most radiant of days has a tomorrow.

Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.