Quotes About Ephemeral

A woman is a sometime thing.

Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.

Fashion is very quick. It's very disposable. It's immediately - it tells you exactly where we are in our culture, especially women's fashion.

She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament.

I'd rather be a shooting star than a fading star.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Time stays, we go.

Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.

Can storied urn, or animated bustBack to its mansion call the fleeting breath?Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust,Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?

A FLOWER THAT SMILES TODAY , TOMORROW DIES. ALL THAT WE WISH TO STAY, TEMPTS AND THEN FILES

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

All play, all sport, until Ferdia came to the ford. I thought beloved Ferdia would live forever after me - yesterday, a mountain-side; today, nothing but a shade.

as British economist John Maynard Keynes reportedly stated, "we are all dead.

Believe me, if all those endearing young charmsWhich I gaze on so fondly today,Were to change by tomorrow and fleet in my arms,Like fairy gifts fading away,Thou would'st still be ador'd as this moment thou art,Let thy loveliness fade as it will,And around the dear ruin each wish of my heartWould entwine itself verdantly still.

So although only one of them had seen her face, and that just for a second, they let her disappear into the night, which would never release her.

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.

But all the photograph told Heidi was that the answers, if there were any, were lost in the wanting and needing and doing. Ghostly figures, caught in a brutal flash of light, and then gone.

The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home? 1.Consider

The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go,—doesn't it?

This randomness makes her feel like vapor, someone inconsequential and invisible.