And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

— Jimi Hendrix

Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently…

— Jamais Cascio

“The desert is full of things you can’t hold on to — light and heat and sand that slips through your fingers like friendships…

— Al Riske

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power,…

— George Schaller

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

— Pema Chodron

“To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.”

— Ilyas Kassam

'Castles Made of Sand' was a song that my parents put me to sleep to, so naturally, it still puts me in a zen…

— Hannah Bronfman

“It's not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality.”

— Mladen Đorđević

You build castles through sand, that's why when big waves came…nobody left but memories

— Samwayne

Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.

— Frederick Crews

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“We continue to eat, the conversation easy and flowing. I listen to everything everyone says, an urgency to pay attention, to not miss these…

— Kaui Hart Hemmings

“Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and shaded them.…

— Pamela Todd

“Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a brief and…

— Ashim Shanker

“Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.”

— Alain de Botton