Quotes About Ephemeral

And are we not all "mere guests" upon this whirling earth?

An image comes to Russell: we drift through the world like dandelion puffs on the wind, we spread our seed and disappear, and the world doesn't care. The world doesn't even notice. The world is not about us. Finally

Money is like grass. It withers. [... ] but our deeds last forever.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

Der Augenblick ist zeitlos.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

It was the opinion of Leonardo that the temporary nature of music caused its inferiority to painting. Although durability was in itself no absolute test,—else the work of coppersmiths would be the highest art,—yet in any final scale, permanence could not altogether be disregarded. Music perished in the very act of its creation, while painting preserved the beautiful from the hand of time.

We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.

there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.

For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.

Twinkle Twinkle little star. You are nothing. You've been dead for a thousand years.

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

Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate.

This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

Like the sea, the Web is volatile: 70 percent of its communications last less than four months. Its virtue (its virtuality) entails a constant present-which for medieval scholars was one of the definitions of hell.23

Ali na svu sre?u ljudi ne ostavljaju dubljeg traga u meni. Samo kratkotrajan dojam, kao što brod u vodi ostavlja brazdu. Ali voda se opet sastavi.

Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains.

Love in a night shall live and die, Love in a day shall wing and fly; Love in the Spring shall last an hour, Easily fade a spring-tide flower.

Scivolò via come un'onda, solo più bella delle altre.

Es ist ein sonderbarer Schmerz. ... Nach etwas zu vergehen, das man nie erleben wird.

You wake, you die.