Quotes About Evanescent

Isn't it really true that life is so beautiful because it's so fleeting and fragile?

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

you are so bodiless, so barely there

and half-formed faces float out and vanish too undulating to be actual

not yet continuous no more than a shiver of something

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.

But it didn't last.

But then it passed, as all things do.

everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself as you're going to sleep, the ones you've already forgotten by the time you wake up.

Life is only a flicker of melted ice.

Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

Everything in life is just for a while.

Some people are like shooting stars. They burst through our lives in a spectacular arc, but they don't stay long. They just leave a trail ~Illuminated

It's weird because horses kind of come and go in my life.

I think the best thing about a bubble is that it pops and is gone. That is what makes it so precious.

Ephemeral should be the default.

We are as ephemeral as rain drops.

You see that in a certain sense content doesn't matter, because whatever it is passes away.

Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.

I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.