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Quotes About Evanescence

Where does the white go when the snow melts?
~ Unknown
Here today, not there tomorrow, gone leaving no incriminating evidence of my unpopular halfbaked world view. That's a good girl.
~ Unknown
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
~ Mary Schmich
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
~ Unknown
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
~ Walter Scott
Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.
~ Mason Cooley
The world didn't end with a whimper or a bang. Your life finished in complete silence. Gone in a blink. And then there was nothing.
~ F.K. Preston
The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.
~ Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
Perhaps he found beauty saddening – I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die.
~ Dodie Smith
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget...
~ John Keats
Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.
~ Marcel Proust
He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There wasn't much to know. Now there's less.
~ Megan Abbott
Let it be a reminder that nothing in this world can last." "Even pain," I reply.
~ Michelle Moran
And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled?
~ Miranda July
Las respuestas a mis preguntas siempre han ido en la misma dirección: el poder es cada vez más débil, más transitorio, más limitado.
~ Moisés Naím
The truth is, like all places in the past, it cannot be found any longer.
~ Niall Williams
in twenty seconds nothing was to be seen of her except floating fragments;
~ Unknown
But nothing is lasting in this world. Even joy begins to fade after only one minute. Two minutes later, and it is weaker still, until finally it is swallowed up in our everyday, prosaic state of mind, just as a ripple made by a pebble gradually merges with the smooth surface of the water.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Venise à la qualité de disparaître en un instant,de ne pas courir derrière le train avec des clins d'œil à gauche et à droite comme le font d'autres villes, mais de sombrer aussitôt, comme si elle n'existait pas, comme si elle n'avait jamais existé.
~ Nina Berberova
HERE TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW. ?O USE TO MILK IS YOUR SORROW
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.
~ Paul Auster
È un lento ma ineluttabile processo di erosione. Le parole di solito hanno una durata leggermente più lunga delle cose, ma alla fine anch'esse decadono insieme con le rappresentazioni che un tempo evocavano.
~ Paul Auster
exactly half the phenomenal world is gone
~ Paul Monette