Quotes About Ephemerality

If what one finds is made of pure matter,it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river...

write the past in disappearing ink

Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

So quick bright things come to confusion.

When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles

Even a passing moment has its fertile past.

MinÄ™li siÄ™ jak obcy, bez gestu i sÅ'owa, ona w drodze do sklepu, on do samochodu. Mo?e w popÅ'ochu albo roztargnieniu albo niepamiÄ™taniu, ?e przez krótki czas kochali siÄ™ na zawsze. [...]

Å»ycie, cho?by i dÅ'ugie, zawsze bÄ™dzie krótkie.

Wir sind voller Begegnungen, Begegnungen ohne Dauer und ohne Abschied, wie die Sterne. Sie nähern sich, stehen Lichtsekunden nebeneinander entfernen sich wieder: ohne Spur, ohne Bindung, ohne Abschied.

But now isn't simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until — later of sooner — perhaps — no, not perhaps — quite certainly: it will come.

All live to die, and rise to fall.

All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Este mesmo segundo desapareceu para sempre, perdeu-se na massa anónima do irrevogável. nunca mais regressará. Sofro e não sofro com isso. Tudo é único - e insignificante.

As soon as you discover the truth it's already gone: the moment passed. I ask: what is it? Reply: it's not.

Do not be frightened. Death is instantaneous and passes in a flash. I know, for I have just died with the girl. Forgive my dying. It was unavoidable.

Every thing has an instant in which it is. I want to grab hold of the is of the thing. These instants passing through the air I breathe: in fireworks they explode silently in space.

I, alive and glimmering like the instants, spark and go out, alight and go out, spark and go out.

She knew that a minute before sunrise, when the sky began to lighten, showing dark, early clouds, there was often a pause when nothing moved, not even time, and she was always happy to be up and in that moment; sometimes she tried to stand perfectly still, to not move with time not moving, and it seemed that if she were not careful she might slip out of this world and into another…She hoped that when her time came, it would be close to morning, and she could wait for the still moment.

Ninguém se pode banhar duas vezes no mesmo rio.