Quotes About Ephemeral

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

Ships that pass in the night.

The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

We are here today and gone tomorrow.

Riches certainly make themselves wings.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

Words writ in waters.

This world's a bubble.

Lepota je skupa, ludo skupa a ništavna i varljiva stvar.

Rekao je da nije niko i ništa; putnik na zemlji, prolaznik u ovom prolaznom vremenu, senka na suncu...

Ali nevolje ne traju vje?no (i to im je zajedni?ko sa radostima) nego prolaze ili se bar smjenjuju i gube u zaboravu.

Ali svaka svetlost brzo dogori i svaka sve?anost pro?e.

A warm and close circle formed, like a new existence, created out of realities and yet itself unreal, which was not what it had been the day before nor what it would be the day after, but like a transient island in the flood of time.