Quotes About Ephemeral

The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The

The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying.

You can still die when the sun is shining.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

What is a ghost? Stephen said with tingling energy. One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of manners.

How mingled and imperfect are all our sublunary joys!

Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places.

Only a fadograph of a yestern scene.

Leave the letter that never begins to go find the latter that ever comes to end, written in smoke and blurred by mist and signed of solitude, sealed at night.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

Forms passed this way and that through the dull light. And that was life.

Cos'è uno spettro? [...] Uno che è svanito nell'impalpabilità per morte, per assenza, per cambiamento di usi.

He had not died but had faded out like a film in the Sun. He had been lost or had wandered out of existence for he no longer existed.

There are certain kinds of currency you acquire in life. Most of it is ephemeral. But friendship and faith in the unseen world and the commitment to be true unto thine own self are the human glue that you never give up, not for any reason.

The false dawn, with its illusions and mist-wrapped softness, can be as inadequate and fleeting as Morpheus' gifts.

Life is just a dream on the way to death.

quickly fading—going

Amazing how beauty can be so fleeting.

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.