Quotes About Ephemerality

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.

How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?   Dr. Seuss

Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.

The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had turned into the energy of the flash (E-mc2). Totally. Nothing left behind. No ash. No smoke. No smell. Nada. One moment it's there, the next moment - pffft - gone. What would it mean? Only this: Nothing lasts. Nothing. Because everything that exists is made of protons.

Did he realized nothing would last, that sooner or later every last speck and smidgeon of matter would disapper?

I can't believe it. Summer's almost over. Summer has a funnel shape. It seems real wide at first and deep. Slow. Like it will last forever. You just float on top of it.

human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.

Your time is the life you have at a particular moment

The life in our possession is our time

Don't neglect or ignore every second that passes

Time is one of the most important components of life

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

All the baubles offered by the material world fail to satisfy because they are themselves products of finitude and impermanent by nature.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

Death," she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place.

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

The Facts of Life: Impermanence

I could go at any time now.