Quotes About Ephemeral

every second is a second lost.

The things that look fixed in the world, child - mountains, wealth, empires - their permanence is only an illusion. We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives.

The years passed as clouds do, ephemeral and vaporous, condensing, sliding along awhile, then dispersing like ghosts.

A book not so much full of birds as full of evanescence, of blue-winged, trumpeting mysteries.

The things that look fixed in this world, child--mountains, wealth, empires--their permanence is only an illusion. We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives. From the perspective of God, cities like this come and go like anthills.

The whole thing feels like a pool of water that I'm trying to hold in my hands.

Doesn't everything," he says, "die at last and too soon?

They die so easily, he boasts. It is like sprinkling salt onto the backs of slugs.

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting.

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.

I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.

All my experience in film has been quite fleeting and tokenesque.

Love is very fleeting with me. I don't know why.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

Everything is finite, right? Nothing can last forever.

No blessing lasts forever.

In football, nothing lasts forever.

The casual listener won't be around forever.

Football forgets everything very quick.