Quotes About Ephemeral

We live in a world of disposable memory. Nothing's built to last, not even shame.

We are not special. We are lit from within by a single candle flame, and when that flame is blown out and all light leaves our eyes, it is the same as if we never existed at all. We don't own our life, we rent it.

Time is rented, Joe thought, never owned.

One could never hold happiness for very long, one had to snatch it whenever it came one's way.

She collects a tray from the kitchen: arranges almond and mango cream puffs, brown sugar lace cookies, and miniature napoleons of vanilla and guava: fleeting breaths of pate a choux and buttercreams that dissolve in single bites.

Flour and yolk and cream are all coarse- of the earth. But sugar and air and vanilla are elements of the firmament. Avis used to tell her kids: Sweets should be an evanescence, cakes and pies represent minutes, cookies and milles-feuilles are seconds, meringues are moments.

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.

Hodie mihi cras tibi. Sic transit gloria mundi.

We come and go from mystery and, in between, we try to forget.

It's only a moment, but ye feel as though it will last forever. Strange, is it no? he said thoughtfully. Ye can almost see the light go as ye watch - and yet there's no time ye can look and say 'Now! Now it's night.

me. The cloud cover had parted for a moment and the light touched the

Man is like the grass that withers and is thrown into the fire; he is like the sparks that fly upward Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and his place will know him no more

My turn today—yours tomorrow. Thus passes the glory of the world.

And his place shall know him no more.

I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.

Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.

Trump 'accomplishments' are ephemeral, coincidental and accidental.

A free soul can truly be at rest. Only a free soul can see the world as it is, superficial and fleeting.

But nothing could be held true for the rest of one's life, every coveted thing in the end was maya, illusion, a myth, and this the great sages of India had always understood --- little was real. We were put on this earth transitorily; we deposited our genes in offspring; deluded ourselves that we would be missed when we were gone; pretended that money, wealth, titles, and land were to be desired. But every such thing was ephemeral, prone to change. The only reason to live was love.

Ultimately all the paper in the world is charred by fire or melted by water, since they douse fire with water.

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

A perfect life is like a cloud. You can reach it, but you can't always see it.

Il fiore perde la freschezza e il profumo; ma la memoria del fiore ci rimane nell'anima incorruttibile ed odorosa per sempre!