Quotes About Ephemeral

Beauty's of a fading nature Has a season and is gone!

My temper's only like a summer storm. It's over in a minute.

What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

Like in a dream, everything seemed to be on the point of vanishing but at the same time ablaze with persistent reality.

It was one of those cases in which the real is irreplaceable and not representable. Unfortunately for them, the real was also instantaneous and without future.

But the second reason overshadowed the first, as the present overshadows the past, especially if it is an astonishing, urgent present in which each minute counts

From "Ships" The marketplaces of the Imagination have shops that are grand and opulent, but not of any great duration. Their transactions are brief, they dispose of their merchandise swiftly, and they are immediately liquidated.

Nothing is more vulnerable and ephemeral than scientific theories, which are mere tools and not everlasting truths.

Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everlasting truth in itself.

There's only one thing we know about death: It comes for all of us, the famous and the obscure, and after it does, we pretty quickly disappear from memory.

She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.

It was one of those almostmoments

Enthusiasm's as slippery as a bar of soap in a bathtub,' Lou said. 'Now you have it, now you don't.

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.

Esa grave enfermedad que se llama "amor" dura tres meses, aseguran los científicos. También dicen que se va sin dejar rastro. Yo no estoy de acuerdo. Cuando un huracán de fuerza cinco pasa por tu vida, no deja nada donde estaba.

En sólo unos pocos años, cuando todo lo que perdurara de mí en esta tierra no fuera más que recuerdo y polvo, del monasterio no habría de quedar piedra sobre piedra.

It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everlasting truth in itself.

What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear

nothing that beautiful lasts forever.

Feelings are fleeting, no matter how earth-shattering they seem; they never last, always change.

Feelings are fleeting, no matter how eart-shattering they seem; they never last, always change.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

There's a moment coming. It's not here yet. It's still on the way. It's in the future. It hasn't arrived. Here it comes. Here it is It's gone.

'Tis but the wraith of love; yet I linger.