Quotes About Ephemeral

My patience, like my time in this world, grows shorter.

Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.

Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment's whim.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. -Rabindranath Tagore

Though I have a sense of achievement while I am in your company, I have nothing to cling to when I move away.

catastrophes of nature whose traces are soon forgotten.

The world is the ever-changing foam that floats on the surface of a sea of silence.

Shopping figures as the antithesis of property in this sense, in that it represents a pure mobility of selves and objects. One moment you are this, have this; the next you move on. In this slide from the compulsory to the compulsive, there are no duties, no continuities, no consequences and no history, only a succession of shopping instants.

For the moment when fashion is fashion, it has no past and no future. The 'latest' fashion, la dernière mode, is also the 'last': for

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

It seems like time slips out of your hands. You wake up, and 2-3 years have passed.

I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

Life is so, so short. The Bible says it's like a vapor.

Life is a blink. It really is, it zips right past you.

Your career goes fast, just a blink of an eye and you're an ex-baseball player, longer than you are a baseball player. I try not to think about it too much, but it seems like it does go fast.

A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.