Quotes About Ephemeral

Reality escapes us. It's beyond description, even a simple pear. Time eats everything.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Primavara - ca orice inceput - este o deficienta de vesnicie.

Here is a moment of extravagant beauty: I drink it liquid from the shells of my hands and almost all of it runs sparkling through my fingers: but beauty is like that, it is a fraction of a second, quickness of a flash and then immediately it escapes.

I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.

As soon as you discover the truth it's already gone: the moment passed. I ask: what is it? Reply: it's not.

It was darker, all she could see of him was a shadow. He was fading more and more, slipping through her hands, dead at the bottom of sleep.

Do zero ao infinito vou caminhando sem parar. Mas ao mesmo tempo tudo é tão fugaz. Eu sempre fui e imediatamente não era mais.

there are indestructible things that accompany the body to death as if they had been born with it. And one of them is what is created between a man and a woman who have experienced certain moments together.

É preciso que se saiba. É preciso que se saiba. Que a vida é curta. Que a vida é curta.

Yo, obra anónima sólo justificable mientras dura mi vida. ¿Y después? Después todo lo que he vivido será de una pobreza superflua.

Everything—absolutely everything—that comes into existence will pass away.

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

The brightest memory fades faster than the dullest ink.

Suleika knows that she is only a passing moment, the crest of a wave or the hem of a cloud, but she is soberly content to be, do an instant, the embodiment of that flow.

The snow is tending toward nothingness.

Being liked can only be ephemeral. Being loved can be everlasting.

People appear and disappear in an instant. No magic or wizardry in the real world of living.

How short life must be, if something so fragile can last a lifetime. —KAFKA

Nothing can save us. All this sweetness dies and rots.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

The sun is new every day. (Fragment 6)

The sun is new every day.

The objective world is, it does not happen. Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling along the lifeline of my body, does a section of this world come to life as a fleeting image in space which continuously changes in time.