Quotes About Ephemeral

Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.

I try. What can I say?" She pauses. "Is all this really happening? I keep thinking that soon it will be over—the life expectancy of a cloud is supposed to be only twelve hours—and then I realize something has occurred that can never ever be over.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long…

Yes! a gay life and a short one, then out with the lights and down with the curtain!

We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don't know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.

She died instantly, said Kateri, implying she'd not had time to use a bookmark.

As Delphine watched, into her head there popped a strange notion: the idea that perhaps strongly experienced moments, as when Eva turned and the sun met her hair and for that one instant the symbol blazed out, those particular moments were eternal. Those moments actually went somewhere. Into a file of moments that existed out of time's range and could not be pilfered by God.

It was the kind of early-fall day Rachel had always loved, not warm or cold, the sky all deep-blue and cloudless and no breeze, the crops proud and ripe and the leaves so pretty but hardly a one yet fallen--a day so perfect that the earth itself seemed sorry to let it pass, so slowed down its roll into evening and let it linger.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

La identidad de cada cual es algo fugitivo y casual y cambiante, de modo que, si dejas de mirar a alguien durante un tiempo largo, puedes perderlo para siempre, igual que si estás siguiendo con la vista a un pececillo en un inmenso acuario y de repente te distraes, y cuando vuelves a mirar ya no hay quien lo distinga de entre todos los otros de su especie.

No he conocido días más hermosos que éstos: es la culminación de mi existencia. Esto es ciertamente la plenitud. El esplendor de la flor, toda abierta, radiante y temblorosa, justo un instante antes de marchitarse.

Esos vivos no eran más que proyectos de cadáveres.

Things are only white for a bit.' Emilie

She walked on and on till she melted out of the picture - like - like a shadow jumping over a candle ...

nothing in the world is solid or real, because nothing is permanent, and all things---including trees and animals and pebbles and mountains and rivers and me and you---are just flowing through for the time being.

Death is certain. Life is always changing, like a puff of wind in the air, or a wave in the sea, or even a thought in the mind.

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

I have to hurry up and write them down before I forget. I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

memories are time beings

The instant you put something like that into words, it was gone. Words and combinations of words - the more you relied on them, the less power you actually had.

Because Harry knew there was no forever. Not for them. Such things were impossible. There was only today, there was only tonight. And he'd do well not to forget it.

When people start talking about a golden age," he said, "they always think a new world has begun which will last forever. But the truth about these so-called golden ages is that they never last very long. A few years, maybe. There's always trouble ahead.

No dominion is everlasting.