Quotes About Ephemeral

Life is a raindrop

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

I would like to be the airthat inhabits you for a momentonly. I would like to be that unnoticed& that necessary.

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in it is nothing but a pile of skulls, showing where others were lost as they went before.

when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.

very small and it will disappear. This

We don't like flowers that donot wilt; they must die, and nineshe-camel hairs aid memory.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

We are all living history, and it's hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing's certain, though: if we throw it away, it's gone.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

There are no friends; only moments of friendship.

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.

Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer.

Be proud of yourself and your achievement but don't be arrogant remember you may have everything today but nothing lasts forever.

We all have to die, thats the beauty of life.

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

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

It taught me that the process was more important than the result, just as the performance means more to me than the object. I saw the process of making it and then the process of its unmaking. There was no duration or stability to it. It was pure process. Later on I read—and loved—the Yves Klein quote: "My paintings are but the ashes of my art.

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.