Quotes About Ephemeral

Everything is so finite but that's what makes our time and specific moments so important.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!

My bits of time play with eternity.

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

It feels like we've stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.

Our time on Earth is so random.

Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me.

Time is a face on the water.

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

Time has only a relative existence.

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.

Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

Time doesn't obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.