Quotes About Ephemeral

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

I've learned that the greatest threat to love is not circumstance but the absence of attentions. For we do not neglect others because we have ceased to love; rather we ceased to love others because we have neglected them. I've learned that each day is a miracle unearned. I've learned that while life is ephemeral-a vapor- LOVE is not. In short, I have learned what matters and what does not.

I did not know you would fade so soon, oh flower.

the names of flowers that open only once, shouted from balconies, shouted from rooftops, or muffled by rooftops, or whispered in sleep, or caught in the throat like a lump of meat.

saying farewell to flesh, farewell to everything caught underfoot and flattened.

But it didn't last.

His form grew fainter and fainter, and just before it went altogether, I saw the hint of a smile, that laughing and mischievous smile I'd loved so much.

For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, we breathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember, yielding us fainter fragrance.

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time.

Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied.

Each sunrise is a precious jewel . . . for it may never be followed by its sunset.

But to have seen thee, and to die so soon!

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

he believed the window of time through which he could enter was shrinking.

Everything in life was transitory, enjoy the moment.

The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.

So dawn goes to day Nothing gold can stay

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only as long as they remember us.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

But then it passed, as all things do.

Ali vrijeme je kao šarm. Nikad ga nemaš onoliko koliko misliš.

and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done, everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself as you're going to sleep, the ones you're already forgotten by the time you wake up

Il tempo è come il fascino. Non ne hai mai quanto vorresti.