Quotes About Ephemeral

La vida es demasiado corta y la muerta está demasiado cerca.

Wealth that comes quickly goeth the same way.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

I was in error when I saw him as fixed and stable and thought I would have him forever. He was never fixed, nor stable, but always just a passing, temporary energy-burst.

Two passing temporarinesses developed feelings for one another. Two puffs of smoke became mutually fond.

What is truth, if not an ongoing faith in, and continuing hope for, that which one feels and knows in one's heart to be right, all temporary and ephemeral contraindications notwithstanding?

to wit, I was sensing the eternal in the ephemeral.

Two passing temporariness developed feelings for one another. Two puffs of smoke became mutually fond. I mistook him for solidity, and now must pay.

All gifts are temporary.

I am not stable and Mary not stable and the very buildings and monuments here not stable and the greater city not stable and the wide world not stable. All alter, are altering, in every instant.

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. ("The Face of the Skies")

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun. (Ephemera)

One day or another, it is true, dust, supposing it persists, will probably begin to gain the upper hand over domestics, invading the immense ruins of abandoned buildings, deserted dockyards; and, at that distant epoch, nothing will remain to ward off night-terrors, for lack of which we have become such great book-keepers...

El tiempo no significa más que la huida de los objetos que parecían verdaderos.

Kesilen ka??t elden ç?kar?lmad?kça, kavalye kupadan üstün deÄŸildir.

I seek the eternal and the ephemeral.

Like everything perfect, he set up a ferocious pain inside me -- a flickering, gripping sort of pain, because nothing as marvelous as that is ever within reach, is it? Nothing as beautiful can ever last.

but while you are wondering whether she be angel or devil, she is gone.

What if you wake up only to die that day?

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

Time is flying never to return.