Quotes About Ephemeral

Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that's when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

Honeymoons are great, but they don't last. And I think the same is true with success on the screen - today, I am all over the place; tomorrow, I may be gone - I may have to make room for someone else. So why make a big song and dance about it all?

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

I don't believe in stardom; it is like a relationship. Today it is with you, tomorrow it might go to someone else.

Hot today, forgotten tomorrow. I'm not buying anything.

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

My dictum has always been: 'This show is happening just here, just tonight, with these people who are in this hall, and nobody knows what's going to happen until it's done.'

Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a momentary, fragmentary experience that has a totality to it. It's kind of like fireworks. It's the more ephemeral of art forms - once it's gone, it's gone, baby.

Life is short, and certainty never happens.

A person is a diminutive, ephemeral thing, standing smaller in comparison with the universe than a single atom stands in comparison with the Earth. Can any one individual existence really matter?

Descubrimos que no somos los protagonistas principales de la vida en el cosmos, sino un minúsculo epifenómeno, que hemos florecido durante un breve instante sobre la ola del aumento de entropía que va del big bang al silencioso vacío que le espera al futuro universo.

Life is too short when you think of the length of death

Humans are replaceable, seconds are not."--Darth Chratis

He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in the midst of life, dying imperceptibly on his feet, like all of us.

Names, names, all passed away, forgotten, mere birdsong in the bushes of things.

All that remains of me now is a rumour of beauty.

Some friendships though, even strong and interesting ones, seem to have quite a short term, and cannot be prolonged.

thought how curious it was how people leave a few traces as they go, that can be looked at and puzzled over, but whether ever properly understood, I doubted.

After all, the cherry blossom blooms every year, but does anyone find it the less lovely for that?

We need everything perfect in a rather temporary life...

Mi sebi rado postavljamo metafizi?ka pitanja o svijetu, životu i ?ovjeku. A trebali bismo iznova i stalno pitati: zašto s tolikim naporom i mukom živimo, kad znamo da ?emo ovdje biti samo jednom i kad imamo tako kratko i neponovljivo vrijeme u ovom neopisivo lijepom svijetu?