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Quotes About Ephemeral

His beauty made him ephermal, like a dragonfly.
~ Storm Constantine
I realised that day that when the animation of the person we were is stripped out of the vessel we have used to pilot our way through life, it leaves little more than an echo or a shadow in the physical world.
~ Sue Black
This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibility of accepting the new versions of oneself that life kept offering. The impossibility of the old version's vanishing.
~ Sue Miller
What is born will die What has been gathered will be dispersed What has been accumulated will be exhausted What has been built up will collapse And what has been high will be brought low. The only thing we really have is nowness, now.
~ Susan Anderson
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
~ Alan Perlis
For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.
~ Mary Steenburgen
Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it.
~ Leonard Cohen
Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.
~ Roscoe Mitchell
I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory."--Fidelis O Mkparu
~ Fidelis O. Mkparu
Love the moment for its simplicity, it may give or take nothing from you, but in the blinking of an eye it will have change so many things forever.
~ Steven Redhead, The Solution
And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
You will not be here--I shall not be here--much lo
~ A.S. Byatt, Possession
Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.
~ Laura Lam, Pantomime
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Never fall in love with stargazers – always with accelerated affection. Their love disappears in the blink of an eye like a shooting star.
~ RSCruz
If she's gonna love again, it won't be an eternity but a hard, fast conflagration that leaves everyone else in the embers.
~ Lindsay Detwiler
She was his dawn of bliss He was her dusk of wounds, Each day they came up to See and touch They couldn't stay for long But they looked perfect together ~
~ Tanya Gambhir
Life is defined by time. Time defined moments. Time is priceless gift.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Being thankful for the things we take for granted, is worth taking pause to understand that they can be taken away within a moment.
~ Ellen Jean Barrier
It's the same old story. A man came like the beautiful wind, left like a destructive storm.
~ Luan
Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums.
~ Jeremiah Walton
Åžtiu c? exist? un singur suflet, r?sfrânt în mii de atitudini trec?toare.
~ Mircea Eliade
That to truly know happiness is to know the fleeting nature of everything, joy, pain, safety and happiness itself.
~ Miriam Toews
someday you'll be gone, you'll be dust, and then even less than dust. Nothing. There's no other place to be. This world is good enough for you because it has to be. Go ahead and love it.
~ Miriam Toews