Quotes About Ephemeral

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

Sports life is very short.

It is a strange thing how quickly the body dies. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone—leaving an empty, insignificant vessel in its stead.

Each decade absolutizes its own fashions of thought and action without the least pause and consideration of the fact that a decade later those very fashions and ideas will be buried in the dustbin of history as one turns to a new decade.

I lowered my gaze from the sky to the trees and caught sight of the cast-off skin of a cicada falling to the ground. I'd heard somewhere that cicadas only had a lifespan of a few weeks. Their precious, short life was spent braving the heat of summer, single-mindedly calling out for a mate, then, when they finally stopped singing, they slipped from that tree that had been their home and returned to the ground. They leave behind the only home they've ever known and die.

Sands of time pause, for a glimpse of moments dyed with the color of dance

The flowers in the desert which bloomed and died were just different versions of their own small lives.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

Time is the thief you cannot banish.

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

Time is the least thing we have.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.

Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.

Fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?