Quotes About Ephemeral

Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

Films are ephemeral, while books—the good ones—are eternal, or close to it.

Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.

Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant, did you ever notice that?

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

Look not long at what's offered, for every precious thing has wings and may fly away.

It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis.

Friends come and go like waiters in a restaurant, did you ever notice that? [...] Some people drown, that's all. It's not fair, but it happens

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief... but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? Yes, I think so. Because when the time is gone, you can never get it back.

Life on this planet on its own is temporal. So tell me why you think your problems are permanent. No condition is permanent.

you can win a talent show and be so famous that you cant walk down the street, but no-one knows you next monday.

The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts.

Even the brightest stars burn out eventually.

Man sometimes forget, he will not live forever.

Enjoy good moments while they last, then make sure they're not the last

I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.

Live in the present. It won't last too long.

We must make time to reflect on life.Someday this life will be gone.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.