“A pleasure that is ephemeral brings no true satisfaction to any man. How miserable must be the lives of those folk who… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an… — Alice Poon Copy Share Image
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write.… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
The ephemeral part of this work is that in music production, the sounds evolve so much faster than it used to, which… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a… — Faye Dunaway Copy Share Image
The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them.… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth. — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
“If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore,… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
“Time is ubiquitous to humanity and nature but its ephemeral experience within and among us is conceptualized through the lens of culture… — Oliver Harper Copy Share Image
I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to… — Horace Annesley Vachell Copy Share Image
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of… — Charles Durning Copy Share Image
You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Celebrities were quick to understand that paparazzi could make icons of them. The more a star is followed and admired, the greater… — Ron Galella Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
