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Quotes About Evanescent

Here is a moment of extravagant beauty: I drink it liquid from the shells of my hands and almost all of it runs sparkling through my fingers: but beauty is like that, it is a fraction of a second, quickness of a flash and then immediately it escapes.
~ Clarice Lispector
The snow is tending toward nothingness.
~ Unknown
People appear and disappear in an instant. No magic or wizardry in the real world of living.
~ Unknown
Transient guests are we.
~ Hideyuki Kikuchi
No, no, we are definitely writ on water. Or cognac -- if we've any luck at all.
~ Jess Walter
everything is temporary if you give it enough time...
~ Jewel Kilcher
What I do and what I record only work for the moment.
~ Leon Redbone
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.
~ John Updike
Impermanence means that the essence of life is fleeting.
~ Pema Chodron
like a little thorn that catches for a moment on a traveler's sleeve, only to pull out when the traveler walks on.
~ Philip Pullman
Whatever we shared is gone, because it was destined to be gone from the minute it started.
~ David Levithan
This is the nice note, I can't help thinking. But just like a sound, as soon as the note hits the air, it begins to fade.
~ David Levithan
luxury is fleeting, but enjoy in it while lasts.
~ Conn Iggulden
Contemporary books do not keep. The quality in them which makes for their success is the first to go; they turn over night. – Cyril Connolly
~ Cyril Connolly
Just an ordinary day. "And then—gone.
~ Joan Didion
We leave no trace as we pass on. Ghostlike, we cast no shadow.
~ Joanne Harris
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
~ Oscar Wilde
Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
~ Lapo Elkann
The soul of man is one of those subtle and evanescent substances that, as long as they remain still, the organ of sight does not remark; it must become agitated to become visible.
~ William Godwin
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
~ Unknown
Like all happiness, it did not last long.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.
~ Joe Meno
I wrote our names on a foggy window and watched them fade away...just like we did.
~ Unknown
It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.
~ Michael Ball