Quotes About Ephemeral

All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano's mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In the quivering air, like gelatine, the sounds trace their bubble paths. Can you imagine that?

Like nothing else, words organized my world, put order to chaos, divided things neatly into black and white. Words even helped me organize my parents. My mother was the printed word—tangible, present, real—while my father was the spoken word—invisible, ephemeral, instantly part of memory. There was something comforting about this rigid symmetry.

Every experience that arises passes away.

the reality of experience is an ever-changing river. Direct perception drops beneath the names of things to show us their ephemeral, mysterious nature. When we bring our attention to the direct perception of experience, we become more alive and free.

You wander around near Independence Park and the Hall of the People, and you get a sense that they will be there forever. But forever is a long time. The people who lived in Washington before the waters came probably thought that about their city. But it's all temporary, baby. Perpetuity is an illusion.

A snowflake fell into my hand, a tiny, fragile gem, a frosty crystal flowerlet with petals, but no stem. I wondered at the beauty of its intricate design, I breathed, the snowflake vanished, but for moments, it was mine.

Death is sometimes so discreet that it steals in noiselessly, stays for only a moment and carries off its prey...

La libertad pertenece al orden de los relámpagos, no al de la luz eléctrica.

what do all the objects in the world have in common if not the fact of being- and of being nothing but- the provisional permanence of certain changes.

Nothing last forever, only the joy and happiness that turns into memories, turns eternal.(c)

The life of a flower is short and full of suffering. Today will be the end of yours as well!

Amor no dura lo que un beso.

Possessions are mere transient effects that come when they are required, and after their purpose has been served, pass away.

Miguel Angel," he said, "It isn't hard to die. Everybody does it. Even flies do it. Everyone here is doing it. We're all terminal." He had a tear in his eye; Big Angel could see it brimming. "Your schedule is just different from mine.

Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.

He was as uncontainable as a handful of water: if you squeezed, it trickled away.

Nothing is as good when you have it as it is bad when it's gone.

Things of this world all eventually reveal what incapable anchors they really are.

You got pretty popular for a while there.' 'For about forty-eight hours,' I said. 'Just long enough to figure out that I don't want to be popular.

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand…and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it's too late. —MARIE BEYNON

Some love is so powerful after all, that it must always include sadness, because encrypted within it is the knowledge that someday it will come to an end.

It makes good times even better when you know they are going to end. Like grilled vegetables are better because some of them are partly soot.

because nothing means as much until it has vanished.

I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.