Quotes About Ephemeral

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

Il avait à peine besoin de disparaître pour ne plus exister.

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proof.

La poésie est de toutes les eaux claires celle qui s'attarde le moins aux reflets de ses ponts

Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth.

Within the religious realm, the same can be said about that type of'apologetics' that claims to agree with the results of modern science-an utterly illusory undertaking and one that constantly requires revision; one that also runs the risk of linking religion with changing and ephemeral conceptions, from which it must remain completely independent.

A vida passa e não fica, nada deixa e nunca regressa.

Life is a series of moments forever sliding out of your grasp.

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

all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.

Mrs. Bri. Psha! there is nothing in it: a moment, and it is over. Just. Ay, but it leaves a numbness behind that lasts a plaguy long time.

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

A fuck from Fred usually lasted less than a minute.

As clouds race towards their own release from form, they are replenshied by the mutable process which created them. They drift, not into continuity, but into other, temporary states of being, all of which eventually decompose to melt into the surrounding air. They rise and fall like vaporous civilizations....

The great times are often that way. In the middle of everything, you suddenly realize that you're having a perfect, golden experience. And you realize how few they are. And how this one is bound to end too soon. You know that it will always be a wonderful memory, that the loss of it will give you a soft ache in the heart. This

Good friends, beware! the only life we know Flies from us like an arrow from the bow, The caravan of life is moving by, Quick! to your places in the passing show.

It is strange that the mind will forget so much, and yet hold a picture of flowers that have been dead for thirty years or more...

In a world of perfect utility, we, too, will be forced to vanish.

She flips open the uppermost notebook, to the page where she has just written: In a world of perfect utility, we, too, will be forced to vanish.

The accumulated possessions of generations disperse like wind-borne pollen.

Muziek dient ertoe ons eraan te herinneren dat we maar heel kort een lichaam hebben.

Outside of time and space, he looked down upon the earth and saw that each fleeting day was a day of dying, that men died slowly with each passing moment as much as they did in war, that human grief and sorrow were utterly insufficient to this vast, dreary spectacle.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid.