Quotes About Ephemeral

Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.

A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that's me.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember.

Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?

I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.

Life is once. Forever.

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

the words are there one minute, and the next they're gone.

People come in and out of your life. For a time they're your world; they are everything. There's no telling how long you will have them near...It's the good-byes that are hard.

I wished I could stay forever, in this moment. Like in one of those plastic snowballs, one little moment frozen in time.

I wanted to memorize it all in case I didn't get to come back again. You never know the last time you'll see a place. A person.

Not for good. Just for now.

Jag ville lägga allt detta på minnet ifall det var sista gången jag var här. Man vet aldrig när det är sista gången man befinner sig på en viss plats. Sista gången man ser en viss person.