Quotes About Ephemeral

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

Time itself comes in drops.

But intentions could be like cloud animals in the sky, so clear for a while, then shifting, then fading, then gone.

A crime you're trying to solve is a temporary

I'm an instant star, just add water.

Some say this evanescence helps focus our attention. They claim that we listen more closely when we know we only have one chance, one fleeting moment to grasp something, and as a result our enjoyment is deepened.

You can't touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

The universe really is indifferent to our fate. It's a vast ocean of energy for which individual wavelets such as us are ephemeral, passing phenomena.

Rage is a candle, it will always burn out.

I am a war cry, bold and brash. I am kindling. I am ash, an evanescent glory.

How long does a building stand before it falls? How long does a contract last? How long will brothers share the inheritance before they quarrel? How long does hatred, for that matter, last? Time after time the river has risen and flooded. The insect leaves the cocoon to live but a minute. How long is the eye able to look at the sun? From the very beginning nothing at all has lasted.

Le mieux est d'éviter de nouer des relations. Car rien ne dure.

We would like to suggest that these three principles - call them control of violence, control of information, and individual charisma - are also the three possible bases of social power. The threat of violence tends to be the most dependable, which is why it has become the basis for uniform systems of law everywhere; charisma tends to be the most ephemeral.

And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds — large, light, and fugitive...

I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust.

How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways." "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end... Charlie: When do the good things start?

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.