Quotes About Ephemeral

This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.

It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

You do a straight play for three months, four months, maybe. It's so brief. And then you're on to the next thing. I loved that. I love that rhythm and that pace.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

I'm a flash in the pan: a novelty.

Childhood is a short season.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day.

I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

In showbiz, so much success and fame comes your way and then it passes on to someone else.

This is it. The final conscious experience. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.

Joys are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.

Everything in life is just for a while.

Living toys are something novel, But it soon wears off somehow.

Behind the glass, underneath the cellophane, remains your final summer – sweet And meaningless, and not to come again.

day-to-day fluctuations in the profits of existing investments, which are obviously of an ephemeral and nonsignificant character, tend to have an altogether excessive, and even an absurd, influence on the market."12

Old and ruined, all rotted and broken upThese plum trees function gorgeouslyA few days every yearIn a way nobody else does.

They shall arrive in a murmur And shall disappear into fog and earth