Quotes About Ephemerality

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.

We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time. We rebel against it. We are drawn like lovers to the unreachable past, to imagined memories, to nostalgia.

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.

The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

That's all any writing could ever be. Words on paper that burn intensely when read and then diminish over time.

Write everything down because it's all very fleeting.

You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.

We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever. -T?shir? Hitsugaya (Bleach)

Go into everything thinking it may be temporary.

In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.

Echan a perder todas las historias de amor intentando que duren para siempre.

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. 

A veces podemos pasarnos años sin vivir en absoluto, y de pronto toda nuestra vida se concentra en un solo instante.

Women spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

All things change; nothing perishes.

Life is so short. Forgetting is so long

How the clock moves on, relentlessly, with such assurance that it eats the years. The days are small and transitory grapes, The months grow faded, taken out of time. It fades, it falls away, the moment, fired by that implacable artillery and suddenly, only a year is left to us, a month, a day, and death turns up in the diary.

I mourn for the quicksilvery racehorse passage of time. Its swiftness has caught me with the same ineffable start that comes to every man and woman who lives long enough. It remains as the single great surprise of any life. In

A human being on this world, Duane realized with a shock of recognition approaching vertigo, made no more permanent impression than does a hand thrust in water. Remove the hand, and water rushes in to fill the void as if nothing had ever been there.

If only time could be seen whole, then you could see the past remaining intact, instead of vanishing in the rearview mirror.

He's been reading James Gleick, and repeats a passage to Ben by heart. "If only time could be seen whole, then you could see the past remaining intact, instead of vanishing in the rearview mirror.