Quotes About Ephemeral

The meaning of life is that it ends.

Our endless days are numbered.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely new is the most transitory of all things. It is beautiful today, and tomorrow merely ludicrous.

Uncertainty, aridity, peace-all things will resolve themselves into these and pass away.

What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind.

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really, we are dust in the wind.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps.

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

I'm really thankful for the popularity of 'Strong Woman Do Bong Soon,' but I know it's only temporary.

Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.

The one thing you can't buy, find, or create is time.

The problem with hashtags is if someone starts a new hashtag, people move on.

Theater dates very quickly.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.