Quotes About Ephemeral

There's nothing in this warm, vegetal dusk that is not beautiful or that will last.

and realizes how there are all these moments, moments like just this one, there are all these moments, and how everyone lives their lives in these short, all-too-short moments. There are all these moments and what's so interesting, what makes them beautiful, is the fact that none of them last.

We live within such a tiny capsule of time yet it seems vast until death rudely makes it so insignificant.

Today, elite cities often attract tourists, upper-class populations working in the highest end of business services, and those who can service their needs, as well as the nomadic young, many of whom later move on to other locales. This increasingly ephemeral city seems to place its highest values on such transient values as hipness, coolness, artfulness, and fashionability. These

There are no sweeter words than this: nothing lasts forever.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Everything transitory is but an image.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

All things transient are but a parable.

Mephistopholese: But we, more cunning in our cares, Must take our joys before they fade.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.

But the tune ends too soon for us all

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

Happiness has a very short half-life.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

Brief life is here our portion.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.