Quotes About Ephemeral

everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself as you're going to sleep, the ones you've already forgotten by the time you wake up.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.' Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy.

Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.

It didn't feel like my world. It felt more like a dream. Something temporary.

You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan.

Death is the general condition. Life is the exception: a beautiful, love-filled exception.

for we are all definitely always falling apart, and not massively entrenched in anything at all.

The beautiful statue of Ganymede and the eagle looked like they had been molded out of white ceramic, and in Ganymede's outstretched arms it seemed to me a whole world was being embraced, a rushing world of gray sky and gray water where everything passed by so fast that you cnever got the chance to hold it, to touch it, to make it yours. Can't we keep anything?

Reality itself is mortal

Someone should enjoy it," Ann said. When she was angry or bitter her voice became flat and distant, almost as if she were being matter-of-fact. "It won't be here long.

Gud i himlen, kjærligheten er et flygtig stof!

no cree usted, señorita, que los seres humanos de esta región se parecen al corto verano? ¿que son tan efímeros y fascinantes como él?

Things that burned bright burned short.

Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!

I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.

There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear in the horizon of the crowds.

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.

But, alas! in this world nothing lasts forever. Even the moon is not always perfect in shape, but loses its roundness with time, and flowers bloom and then fade.

She was like a candle that just went out. All the circles that made her up suddenly got lopsided and warped.

They say there is a kind of flower that blooms only once a century, Then couldn't there be one that flowers only once every thousand years - or once every ten thousand years? Maybe there are and we just don't know it because today is itself that once-in-a-thousand-year moment.

The happiness of love is a shooting meteor; the pain of love is the darkness following.