Quotes About Ephemeral

And so eternity was the minute.

We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

Beauty is a frail good.

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.

Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?

All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

Beauty,--the fading rainbow's pride.

Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.

Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.