Quotes About Ephemeral

Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.

The true love is very momentary but what a moment.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting

Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Life is an intangible gift from GOD. We can neither see it, feel it, or bargain with it. Life is an unsubstantial flimsy thing. It is here today and gone tomorrow.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

and time becomes a forgotten detail.

Everything was insanely alive, now you see it, now you don't. I thought, it's the light, it's the water, it's changing every second, it's always doing this whether I'm here to witness it or not.

Just lately I have been happier than I ever had the right to expect, and as one goes around the world one sees that happiness is hard to come by and seldom lasts for long.

There is something everywhere, and everything nowhere.

Touch everything lightly, enjoy it while it is within your reach, and do not regret it when it is gone, since that is the nature of things.

He is reminding us that—as he puts it elsewhere—everything we have is actually "on loan" from the universe, and the right attitude is to enjoy it while we have it and relinquish it when it is gone. Indeed, precisely because it will one day be gone, it is all the more precious while we have it.

Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes

Cherry blossoms – lights of years past.

Dying cricket - how full of life, his song.

Even a summer day isn't long enough for singing skylarks

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We're a late-night piss in the toilet, that's all we are.

We'd have been a meteor shower. Over before we started.' 'Meteor showers are fucking beautiful.

Se solo riuscissimo a trovare un modo per fermare il tempo. È su questo che dovremmo concentrarci. Sa, quando un attimo di felicità passa davanti. Potremmo lanciare la rete, catturarlo come una farfalla e tenerlo con noi per sempre.

Bands don't last. We'd have been a meteor shower. Over before we started. - Meteor showers are fucking beautiful.