Quotes About Ephemeral

How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

For me, beauty is always retreating from one's grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed.

Blood and flowers were alike, Isao thought, in that both were quick to dry up, quick to change their substance. And precisely because of this, then, blood and flowers could go on living by taking on the substance of glory. Glory in all its form was inevitably something metallic.

History is a record of destruction. One must always make room for the next ephemeral crystal. For history, to build and to destroy are one and the same thing.

Il mondo di certo finirà in rovina, però prima che ciò avvenga per alcuni attimi si materializzeranno splendide movenze che in un altrettanto breve intervallo scompariranno.

Pi?kno jest bezcelowe, pi?kno przep?ywa przez nasze cia?a, nie pozostawiaj?c ?ladu i nic nie zmieniaj?c...

Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music.

Thousands of years before our liberal age, ancient Buddhism went further by denying not just all cosmic dramas, but even the inner drama of human creation. The universe has no meaning, and human feelings too are not part of a great cosmic tale. They are ephemeral vibrations, appearing and disappearing for no particular purpose. That's the truth. Get over it.

Quando a mente aprende a enxergar nossas sensações tais como elas são — ou seja, vibrações efêmeras e inexpressivas —, perdemos o interesse em persegui-las. Pois qual o sentido de correr atrás de algo que desaparece tão rápido quanto surge?

the real root of suffering is this never-ending and pointless pursuit of ephemeral feelings, which causes us to be in a constant state of tension, restlessness and dissatisfaction.

Durante nuestra estancia infinitesimalmente breve en la diminuta mota que es nuestro planeta, nos preocupamos y nos pavoneamos de esto o de aquello, y después ya no se oye más de nosotros.

Every moment is important; like the moment that takes away your life.

Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart.

We live in a disposable, transient-feeling world and usually after five years you go on to the next thing, maybe now even less than five years.

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Somos viajeros en una travesía cósmica — polvo de estrellas, dando vueltas y bailando en los remolinos del infinito. La vida es eterna. Pero las expresiones de vida son efímeras, momentáneas y transitorias.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?

Life is only a flicker of melted ice.

They are both spectacular, life and death.

This visit is a bit of the same, and the same feels precious and fleeting.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.