Quotes About Ephemerality

Judith is whimpering, Susanna clutching her hand, so Agnes misses the moment, she misses seeing her son, the shroud see sewed for him, disappearing from view, entering the dark black river-sodden earth. It was there one moment, then she dipped her head to look at Judith and then it was gone. Never to be seen again.

Behold how this drop of seawater has taken so many forms and names; it has existed as mist, cloud, rain, dew, and mud, then plant, animal, and Perfect man; and yet it was a drop of water from which these things appeared. Even so this universe of reason, soul, heavens, and bodies, was but a drop of water in its beginning and ending. ...When a wave strikes it, the world vanishes; and when the appointed time comes to heaven and stars, their being is lost in not being.

That was all it took – a shower of rain, the slam of a door, the thrust of a knife or a gunshot – and just like that, a person could be gone with nothing but the memories of others to show that they'd ever existed.

CHAMA E FUMO Amor - chama, e, depois, fumaça... Medita no que vais fazer: O fumo vem, a chama passa... Gozo cruel, ventura escassa, Dono do meu e do teu ser, Amor - chama, e, depois, fumaça... Tanto ele queima! e, por desgraça, Queimado o que melhor houver, O fumo vem, a chama passa... Paixão puríssima ou devassa, Triste ou feliz, pena ou prazer, Amor - chama, e, depois, fumaça... A cada par que a aurora enlaça, Como é pungente o entardecer! O fumo vem, a chama passa...

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.

Ces jours uniques, ils se consument par l'usage, ils ne reviennent pas, on ne peut les vivre ici quand on les a vécus là.

From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star.

Life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it.

Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.

Ogni cosa sotto il cielo finisce, e se si ritiene che la temporalità ne infici il valore, allora nulla che sia reale ottiene mai il successo.

Today is a fantasy for tomorrow has gone and yesterday is here!

You know that you've found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have it, you fear the moment you might lose it.

Time is like a river. You cant touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again.

Life is short and so is money

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever, what makes it precious is that it ends.

Appreciate life cause you only get one chance, and that chance doesn't last long.

Life goes by in the blink of an eye,. Appreciate the moments...