Quotes About Ephemeral

Sometimes that's what happens. No cigarette burns, no bone snaps. Just an irretrievable slipping.

No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters – from Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre, from Samuel Clemens to his wife, Olivia – I don't know, I always think about what will be lost—

Sinto como se uma rajada de vento quente pudesse soprar em minha direção e me fazer desaparecer para sempre, nenhuma ponta de unha deixada para trás. Alguns dias acho essa ideia reconfortante; em outros, ela me dá arrepios.

I feel like a warm gust of wind could exhale my way and I'd be disappeared forever, not even a sliver of fingernail left behind. On some days, I find this thought calming; on others it chills me.

But then what are memories but shadows of objects gone to dust? Or

Lass dich fesseln, flüchtiger Gedanke!

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable?but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone call.

It seemed odd that a man's smell should cling in the folds of a curtain so long after the man himself had become dead matter, a gas, a decay.

Belief dies away like desire for a woman

How bright we all bur. No wonder we were not made to last.

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.

I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.

Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and pinned down, it's worthless.

Every Tom, Dick and Harry is making records. They have one hit and are gone forever.

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.