Quotes About Ephemeral

she would always be, at the very best, a dewdrop on life's river bank.

The scent of spring flowers, delicate as lace, there and gone again. Utterly unlike Atlanta.

No one but a lover should ever see such an expression, and then only fleetingly, yet here it was, captured forever.

She felt hot, then cold, then nothing at all, like a bubble rising through water, then floating, then lifting free.

Worauf steuert die Welt zu? Auf dieselbe Vergänglichkeit, aus der sie kommt.

It was strange to realize that after this night I would never see it again as it was. The room had never looked so beautiful as it did at that moment.

But nothing is lasting in this world. Even joy begins to fade after only one minute. Two minutes later, and it is weaker still, until finally it is swallowed up in our everyday, prosaic state of mind, just as a ripple made by a pebble gradually merges with the smooth surface of the water.

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.

But nothing is permanent in this world. Joy in the second moment of its arrival is already less keen than in the first, is still fainter in the third, and finishes by coalescing with our normal mental state, just as the circles which the fall of a pebble forms on the surface of water, gradually die away.

Non è panno questo, ma gloria: come soffia un po' di vento vola via.

But nothing on this earth lasts for a long time, and thus even joy is not as vivid the second moment as it is the first; the third moment, it becomes still weaker, and finally it merges unnoticeably with the normal state of one's soul,

Autour de lui il n'y avait que de l'insaisissable. de l'impalpable. ô combien impalpable !

The best photo you keep as your pride will one day be the carrier of RIP when you're gone.

Venise à la qualité de disparaître en un instant,de ne pas courir derrière le train avec des clins d'œil à gauche et à droite comme le font d'autres villes, mais de sombrer aussitôt, comme si elle n'existait pas, comme si elle n'avait jamais existé.

We performed in front of the camera with unabashed joy, as if we lived only for that moment. And in fact we had, for our work did not stand the test of time. Our images -- quite literally -- crumbled.

All the nations that ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand. The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human material is atomized and recycled. But if we know where to look, there is always a remnant, a remainder, an irreducible residue.

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

This shooting star had apparently been sedentarized in my bailiwick-so, good.

Mil cosas solicitan a la vez nuestra atención y ninguna de ellas logra retenernos; así la vida se nos vuelve arena entre los dedos y las horas humo en el cerebro.

Alas! The only flower known to have wings is the butterfly; all others stand helpless before the destroyer.

Even the most potent hash When spent eventually becomes ash The most needed now is cash But then, for it you must nt rush

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Fame is like dust in a gusty wind. You never know in which way it is blowing. If you ever face the gust of the wind, don't get carried away.

Within our bodies disintegration inexorably advances; soon we shall fall sick and die. Our loved ones will leave us, the memory of them will dissolve in the tumult; nothing will remain. Just a few clothes in the wardrobe and someone in a photograph, no longer recognized. The most precious memories will dissipate. Everything will sink into darkness and vanish.