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Quotes About Ephemeral

Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake. Beauty by mistake- the final phase in the history of beauty.
~ Milan Kundera
It takes so little, a tiny puff of air, for things to shift imperceptibly and whatever it was that a man was ready to lay down his life for a few seconds earlier, seems suddenly to be sheer nonsense
~ Milan Kundera
He took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love.
~ Milan Kundera
mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.
~ Milan Kundera
But no carnival can go on for ever.
~ Milan Kundera
La historia es igual de leve que una vida humana singular, insoportablemente leve, leve como una pluma, como el polvo que flota, como aquello que mañana ya no existirá.
~ Milan Kundera
Cómo es posible condenar algo fugaz?
~ Milan Kundera
Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
~ Milan Kundera
Hiçbir tehlike olmamas?na raÄŸmen, hayat?ndaki bir an?n diÄŸer bütün anlar gibi hiçliÄŸe dönüÅŸecek yerde zaman?n ak???ndan kopar?laca??n? ve gün gelip aptalca bir rastlant?n?n sonucunda iyi gömülmemiÅŸ bir ceset gibi canland?r?laca??n? düÅŸünerek belli bir s?k?nt? duymaktan alam?yordu kendini.
~ Milan Kundera
Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while as a mistake.
~ Milan Kundera
y life is always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.
~ Milan Kundera
Lo que sólo ocurre una vez, es como si no ocurriera nunca
~ Milan Kundera
Mas neste mundo nada dura muito tempo e, por detrás das ondas decrescentes do alívio, subia a voz ténue do desgosto
~ Milan Kundera
Antes de que se nos olvide, seremos convertidos en kitsch. El kitsch es una estación de paso entre el ser y el olvido.
~ Milan Kundera
Everyone has trouble accepting the fact he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late.
~ Milan Kundera
Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake.
~ Milan Kundera
Lo que solo ocurre una vez es como si no ocurriera nunca. Si el hombre solo puede vivir una vida es como si no viviera en absoluto
~ Milan Kundera
cuvintele obiÈ™nuite sunt f?cute spre a se stinge de îndat? ce au fost rostite, ele n-au alt scop decât acela de a servi în momentul comunic?rii; ele sunt supuse lucrurilor È™i nu sunt decât însemnul acestora; dar iat? c? aceste cuvinte deveniser? ele însele lucruri È™i nu erau subordonate sau supuse la nimic; nu mai erau destinate comunic?rii imediate È™i dispariÈ›iei rapide, ci d?inuirii.
~ Milan Kundera
Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return im­plies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
~ Milan Kundera
with the perspective of eternal return, things appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. How can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
~ Milan Kundera
Lo que ocurre una vez es como si no ocurriera nunca.
~ Milan Kundera
la idea del eterno retorno significa cierta perspectiva desde la cual las cosas aparecen de un modo distinto a como las conocemos: aparecen sin la circunstancia atenuante de su fugacidad.
~ Milan Kundera
I'll hear a song I love and suddenly I'm isolated from everything around me just for a nanosecond. That's a moment between a moment.
~ Charlie Sheen
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee