Quotes About Ephemerality

A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.

Someone died today. Someone was born today. It's not just a day—it's a moment.

The moment one is born, the 'saw starts cutting'. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.

Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.

To inspire is to give life. To expire is to give death.

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

Everything that is born will eventually die and everything that is created will eventually be destroyed.

We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

A pop star's career lasts 18 months.

This may be our 15 minutes of fame, so we're going to enjoy it while it lasts.

Words have a longevity that I do not have.

It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.

Do not carve on stone or wood, He was honest or He was good. Write in smoke on a passing breeze Seven words… and the words are these, Telling all that a volume could, He lived, he laughed and… he understood.

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.

Nihil sub sole novum, I thought as I walked back down the hall to my room. Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

Nihil sub sole novum [...] Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

He's telling you that living things don't last—it's all temporary. Death in life.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.