Quotes About Ephemerality

All things are in motion and nothing is at rest. … You cannot go into the same [river] twice.

The dates fall away from the days, like glass punched out of window frames, or ice cubes out of a tray into a sink, identical, dateless, nameless durational blobs, melting into an undifferentiated puddle.

Nothing is forever in this world, not even our problems.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

We cannot see time directly but only catch glimpses of its reflections.

Life is but shadow. Only you, my Beloved, are more real than shadow.

Zeit ist etwas, das man um so weniger begreift, je mehr man davon erfährt. Man kann ihrer nie sicher sein. Achtet man auf die Zeit, so schleicht sie dahin wie eine Schnecke, aber sobald man sich von etwas anderem ablenken läßt, springt sie davon wie ein Wiesel. Sie ist immer da, aber wenn du sie packen willst, greifst du ins Leere, denn sie ist schon wieder vergangen.

Todo termina y, ¿qué importa que termine un poco antes o un poco después puesto que de todos modos termina? Todo lo que termina es breve. ¿Y acaso será un mal el que la vida sea breve? No, porque la brevedad es la que la hace preciosa.

It was like that hush of spirit which we feel amid the bright, mild woods of autumn, when the bright hectic flush is on the trees, and the last lingering flowers by the brook; and we joy in it all the more, because we know that soon it will all pass away. The

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

IN the natural world Sacrifice is meaningless, As all things come and go From the One.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

Our lives are like the wind... or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other... Then fade away

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." [ Letter, November 1856 ]

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

It doesn't matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place. You hoped to know Ellington Feint forever, but there's no such thing as forever, really. Everything is much shorter than that.

Forever doesn't exist. The concept of it all is just a process, a thought we create to give us confidence in our choices, a promise before the end. Forever is like a blooming cherry blossom, beautiful even after the wind has blown it away from home to settle on the tainted ground below.

We are all water from different rivers That's why it's so easy to to meet We are all water in this vast, vast ocean Someday we'll evaporate together.

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights, each one perilous as a lunar journey. He

Certains visages vous subjuguent, on s'en détourne avec le sentiment de renoncer même à respirer. Demain, j'aurai oublié tout ça, se dit-il. Le matin, tout est différent, les choses deviennent réelles.

The only thing I know for certain is that everything passes. The good times, the bad times.