All things ephemeral are made lovely in their brevity."…

“I somehow see what's beautiful in things that are ephemeral, I'm my only friend of mine and love is just a peace of time…

— Zooey Deschanel

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a…

— Carl Sagan

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's just ephemeral,…

— Arundhati Roy

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace…

— Anonymous

Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral

— W. H. Auden

“The past was a lie, memory has no return, every spring gone by could never be recovered, and the wildest and most tenacious love…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

— Eva Green

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say…

— Clive Barker

On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally…

— Helen Kieran Reilly

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were very successful…

— Rufus Wainwright

“I guess I always knew that our time together would be fleeting. Ephemeral.”

— Cynthia Hand

I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by…

— Edward Teller

An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached…

— Kim Ki-duk