Quotes About Ephemeral

In the midst of life we are in death,'" said Miss Ophelia.

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die.

Product distinctions, the historic centerpiece of product marketing, exist only briefly—and in the prospects' minds, often not at all.

But you can't ever live in the place you dream about, the town you long for. ...the moment you become conscious of your desire, and then fulfill it, it evaporates.

The nature of the ray is to extend and withdraw, to appear and disappear; and the duration of its existence is short when compared with the duration of the eternal

We are being solidified by modernity into states that, in prior eras, would have been more ephemeral.

Campfires and birthday candles don't burn forever.

The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.

All men are born free: just not for long.

Pleasure is the flower that fades, remembrance is the lasting perfume.

It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting. There may be a time when this symbol means something treacherous and terrible, rather than something noble and literate.

Look at everything in plain sight. The bed, the table, every object you see has likely been in the world longer than us, and they'll still be in the world when we're gone. It is the things that have a history, L. Compared to them we are ghosts.

Castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually ~ JIMI HENDRIX, MUSICIAN

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

There was a smell, the Golux thought, a little like Forever in the air, but mixed with something faint and less enduring, possibly the fragrance of a flower.

Bennett was grateful for every day he was given on this earth because he knew how fleeting that time could be.

Stanislaus Jean, chevalier de Boufflers, once wrote: "Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume." How can it be that our pleasure is as fleeting as the flower? —DB

I am his lover. They had made no promises, no vows; this was an interlude which might end with the next sunset or ebb with the changing tide. Yet she knew, with a certainty that belongs only to the young, that this was for always. Whether she had a year, or a week, or just a few hours, she would make it last forever.

Her nitelik zaman zaman anl?k ko?ullar taraf?ndan de?erinin ilerisine ta??n?r.

today's news is tomorrow's fish and chip wrappers

Two, she thought, was the most ephemeral age, the age of incipient consciousness, when personality was first chinking into place. Felicity was her last chance to enjoy this, and so she did, day after day

All that was a dream, you couldn't hold on, you couldn't depend on frosted glass and Debussy.