Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that…

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

— Jimi Hendrix

“But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be.”

— Iain M. Banks

The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Do not let the world tell you not to bloom Just because they aren't ready for you Just because few days after they bloomed…

— Sanhita Baruah

“The flowers in the desert which bloomed and died were just different versions of their own small lives.”

— Sharon Kendrick

“Epitaph “love had ten thousand flowers Bloomed on those cheeks, like an angel you came as haste to earth and Opened the joys breast…

— Nithin Purple

“Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.”

— Nora Roberts

“Flowers bloomed without glimpsing your smile in spring, leaves have fallen in autumn chiming in with the gloom, the chill of winter has gone…

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the camellia flowers…

— John the Apostle

“Fresh flowers bloomed from vases, sweetly scenting the air. Again, he had no idea. Fine. He'd requested those. That shit smelled good.”

— Gena Showalter

“He finished his meeting a few minutes later and almost rudely ejected his business acquaintances from his library, then he went in search of…

— Judith McNaught

“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

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

— Frederick Crews