Quotes About Ephemerality

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!

The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.