Quotes About Ephemeral

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The world, like an accomplished hostess, pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.

There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today will be gone or, at best, riddled with broken links and outmoded code in five years, tops.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

I just found you - I don't want to leave you so soon.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be preserved.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

My father was right: people are always leaving. They fall in and out of your life like shadows.

It's as if the body is a candle and the soul is its flame. When the flame is snuffed out, all that is left to prove that there had been a flame is the candle

even that we only have for a little while. Even the candle is not ours to keep. And yet how we care for that candle for that stretch of time that it is still ours! How we want to remember the shape and fragrance of the little

It's as if the body is a candle and the soul is its flame. When the flame is snuffed out, all that is left to prove that there had been a flame is the candle, and even that we only have for a little while. Even the candle is not ours to keep. And yet how we care for that candle for that stretch of time that it is still ours! How we want to remember the shape and fragrance of the little flame it held.