Quotes About Ephemeral

on m a dit : tu n es que cendre et poussière.On a oublié de me dire qu il s agissait de poussières d étoiles

on m a dit : tu n es que cendre et poussier.On a oublié de me dire qu il s agissait de poussieres d etoiles

You can replace a man for one year with a ghost, but not the ghost the subsequent year.

Where does the white go when the snow melts?

Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and amongst those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

In a tiny number of places I have added a personal recollection in a footnote. But I have kept them out of the text. Personal anecdote and historical evaluation are in my view best kept apart. Leaving aside the frailties of memory, most of what passes by on a daily basis has only ephemeral resonance. Assessment of the significance of major occurrences nearly always requires not just detailed knowledge but the passage of time in which to digest it.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

There is no medicine to be found for a life which has fled.

Nosotros y todas nuestras existencias son no-entidades. Tú eres el ser absoluto cuya apariencia es transitoria.

The candle burned the moth: But soon it will vanish in its own fat.

La vela quemó a la polilla: Pero pronto desaparecerá en su propia grasa.

Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.

Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, Are gone forever, Yet mindless The spring comes again.

Some people are there for all our life and others are there for just a moment.

Your time is the most precious thing in this world.

I will leave no memoirs.

Anyone can change the world. But no one can change it forever. In a hundred years, no one you know will be alive. What will it matter then if we fought or just spent our days sleeping in the sun?

All men die, Genghis. All. Think what it means for a moment. None of us are remembered for more than one or two generations.

luxury is fleeting, but enjoy in it while lasts.

Life is too valuable to be wasted and it lasts too short

Your life is just a bird's flight through a lit room. You pass from infinite darkness into endless night, with only a short time in between.

All lovely things will have an ending,All lovely things will fade and die,And youth, that's now so bravely spending,Will beg a penny by and by.

Here today, not there tomorrow, gone leaving no incriminating evidence of my unpopular halfbaked world view. That's a good girl.