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Quotes About Ephemeral

To be forgotten, is to die a little.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
After I die, I'll be forgotten.
~ Al Jolson
Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
~ Veruschka von Lehndorff
Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.
~ Luise Rainer
As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.
~ Azzedine Alaia
Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.
~ Ry Cooder
Life is so fragile.
~ Chris Mullin
Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.
~ Douglas Coupland
It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone.
~ Clive Anderson
There are some people who don't want to deal with the fact that we are not forever. Some people decide to live life to the fullest.
~ Tessa Thompson
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
~ Mordecai Richler
Where are the snows of yesteryear?
~ Francois Villon
No one will remember you.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
My breath clouded the air like a little ghost escaping from my body.
~ Francesca Lia Block
There was a collage of dead butterflies on the wall.
~ Francesca Lia Block
The world's delight is a brief dream.
~ Francesco Petrarca
Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are somtimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleetingly aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.
~ Frank Herbert
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent.
~ Frank Herbert
Flesh that had cried in ecstasy, eyes that had burned him with their desire, the voice that had charmed him because it played no tricks of subtle control—all gone, back into the water and the sand.
~ Frank Herbert
I wanted only to disappear like a jewel of trace dew caught by the morning.
~ Frank Herbert
In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshly sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleetingly aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use it's proper name: Temporary.
~ Frank Herbert
Greatness is a transitory experience.
~ Frank Herbert
He began to realize that there might be a certain fastidious courtesy in dying without a trace - no remains, nothing, and an entire planet for a tomb.
~ Frank Herbert