Quotes About Evanescent

My days are consumed like smoke.

What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

The fashion of this world passeth away.

Our time is a very shadow that passeth away.

Life's like a bubble...pop - Caleb alan Hall

The years passed as clouds do, ephemeral and vaporous, condensing, sliding along awhile, then dispersing like ghosts.

No blessing lasts forever.

It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone.

The world's delight is a brief dream.

If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary. —THE STOLEN JOURNALS

What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.

Everything that happens is the last time it happens. We see things only as their own fatal brightness and there is nothing after that brightness.

Newspaper stories were as insubstantial as smoke, as long-lived as mayflies. They did not take root but were instead like weeds that crawled along the ground, stealing the sunlight from more deserving tales.

Life really is very brief.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

Good things only can last so long.

Asia, Europe are mere nooks of the universe. Every ocean is a drop in the universe: Mount Athos a spadeful of earth in the universe. The whole of present time is a pin-prick of eternity. All things are tiny, quickly changed, evanescent.

Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it's gone.

I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I'd turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

But this effervescence was frenetic and likely to vanish in an instant;