Quotes About Ephemeral

In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not.

Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.

You can't miss me, because I was never there.

Everyone dies young.

In life, nobody gets out alive.

Death is a shadow that always follows the body

She who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.

we're just paper on a shelf, in the end

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

Glory is like a circle in the water

You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.

I do have in the back of my head that you never know how long it lasts.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.

She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.

She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die. "Yes.