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Quotes About Ephemeral

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.
~ Rajneesh
For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
~ Sophocles
That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Life really is very brief.
~ Matthew Modine
All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru
~ Masashi Kishimoto
A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.
~ Marcel Proust
Life is too short because we die.
~ Christopher Locke
You are permanent, but this life is not.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Life is the flash in black heavens.
~ Henri Cazalis
Our life is woven wind.
~ Joseph Joubert
This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know.
~ Louise Chandler Moulton
Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
~ Michel de Montaigne
All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.
~ William Browne
Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.
~ Ali MacGraw
Life is an illusion that last too little.
~ Annette Curtis Klause
Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
~ Arthur Miller
How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.
~ Bill Vaughan
Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
~ Brit Marling
Every life is finite, Will.
~ Cassandra Clare
That's what life is about: People come and go.
~ Cecelia Ahern
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd—"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
~ Edward Fitzgerald
"While you live,Drink!—for, once dead, you never shall return."
~ Edward Fitzgerald