Quotes About Ephemeral

I could make love with you until the mood decides to never glow again.

Be that fragnance which fades in breezes of cold air but always gives intense smell.

Flowers wither knowing that you exist.

It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it.

It's good to be vanished and remembered than to remain and become forgetful.

Not every relationship is meant to last. Some are there to create an impact on your life. Relationships that last three months are just as important as ones that last a lifetime.

Desire is only a thought, an impulse. It is nebulous and ephemeral.

These impulses to buy new things that will eventually lose their novelty

Waktulah satu-satunya yang kita miliki dalam jumlah yang banyak.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Little, impalpable worlds, were those soap-bubbles, with the big world depicted, in hues bright as imagination, on the nothing of their surface.

But I never considered it as other than a transitory life.

It is but for a moment, comparatively, that anything looks strange or startling, — a truth that has the bitter and the sweet in it.

No encuentro nada tan singular en la vida como el hecho de que todo parece perder su substancia en el instante en que uno va a tocarlo.

Ours is a perfect world--but perfection does not linger in one place. It is a firefly, by its very nature elusive and unpredictable.

Love remains mortal

All I'm saying is that, unless you're immortal, nothing can really belong to you. The best you can hope for is to hold something for a while, but in the end you've got to give it back.

I began to recognize something in humanity that was ephemeral and hard to quantify, but definitely there. Simply put, humanity had a need to be bad. Not everyone, of course—but I calculated that 3 percent of the population could only find meaning in life through defiance. Even if there was no injustice in the world left to defy, they had an innate need to defy something. Anything.

flames were not meant to burn forever.

I ask every thinking man to show me what remains of life.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

El alma es cosa tan impalpable, tan inútil a menudo, y en ocasiones tan molesta, que, al perderla, no sentí más que una emoción algo menor que si se me hubiera extraviado, yendo de paseo, una tarjeta de visita.

Ha buscado por doquier la belleza pasajera, fugaz, de la vida presente, el carácter de aquello que el lector nos permitió llamar la modernidad.

palabra que exprese la idea en cuestión. Se trata, en su caso, de rescatar de lo histórico cuanto la moda contenga de poético, de extraer lo eterno de lo transitorio.