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Quotes About Ephemeral

Things of a day! what are we and what not? A dream of a shaddow is man; yet when some god-given splendor falls, a glory of light comes over him and his life is sweet
~ Gilbert Murray
Every year has an expiration date, as does every lifetime. Even the finest wine can't age forever.
~ Gina Barreca
El arte más perfecto, la música, late, pasa y desaparece.
~ Giovanni Papini
IL LAMPO E cielo e terra si mostrò qual era: la terra ansante, livida, in sussulto; il cielo ingombro, tragico, disfatto: bianca bianca nel tacito tumulto una casa apparì sparì d'un tratto; come un occhio, che, largo, esterrefatto, s'aprì si chiuse, nella notte nera.
~ Giovanni Pascoli
Tra un fiore colto e l' altro donato l' inesprimibile nulla
~ Giuseppe Ungaretti
Tot ce sclipe?te ?ine doar o clip?, ce-i cu temei în veci va fi p?strat.
~ Goethe
What glitters, lives but for the moment; what has real worth, survives for all posterity.
~ Goethe
No le sacia ningún placer, no le contenta ninguna felicidad, va sin cesar en busca de formas cambiantes. El pobre quiere apresar ese último, ese mísero, ese vano momento.
~ Goethe
That a pansy is transitive, is its only pang.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1875
If the rose comes, we eat and drink near it; if it departs, we do not regret it.
~ Arabic proverb
Ephemeral, eternal heart!
~ Emily Dickinson, 1885
And after all, what did it matter? Everybody died anyway, the good and the bad, the efficients and the weaklings, those that loved to live and those that scorned to live. They passed. Everything passed.
~ Jack London
Zaten her ÅŸey geçip gider.
~ Jack London
El trabajo de hombre es efímero y se desvanece como la espuma del mar... Así se desvaneció nuestra civilización grandiosa y colosal.
~ Jack London
You have to remember life is short, but
~ Jack Weatherford
The only thing rare is time.
~ Jacques Attali
Always remember, John, that you and I live on a minor planet attached to a minor star, at the far edge of a minor galaxy. We live here briefly, and when we're gone, we're forgotten. And one day the galaxies will be gone, too. The only morality that makes sense is to do something useful with the brief time we're allotted.
~ James A. Michener
Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.
~ James Altucher
Like dew I was born Like dew I vanish ..and all that I have ever done Is but a dream Within a dream
~ James Clavell
This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.
~ James Clavell
Look at this sunset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.
~ James Clavell
Listen, this is my death poem: "Like dew I was born Like dew I vanish Osaka Castle and all that I have ever done Is but a dream Within a dream." A last smile, so tender, from the Despot to them and to him. "Guard my son, all of you." And then the eyes had opaqued forever.
~ James Clavell
How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.
~ James Clavell
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
~ Arthur Erickson