Quotes About Ephemeral

To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without a name.

What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

The whole point about strangers is, they disappear into the ether and you never see them again.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

For now I feel All we who live are but an empty show And idle pageant of a shadowy dream.

Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.

None of your power follows you through life.

And the vision no sooner dawns than dies blazing into oblivion.

We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet.

How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.

Life like an empty dream flits by.

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.

Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

Life is sweetest when it could go away tomorrow.

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.

The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.

Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

They shall arrive in a murmurAnd shall disappear into fog and earth

Life!, is but only...A faint whisper!".

How much is real and for how long..

For once, it seems there's nothing to worry about…… for the time

Nothing is perpetual in this world. Not even your everlasting soul!