The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared… — Carl Sagan 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena;… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by… — Pope Francis 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
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
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
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will… — Omar Khayyam 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
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
Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of… — Kurt Ralske Copy Share Image
Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
“Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down… — Evan Spiegel Copy Share Image
“Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and… — Pamela Todd Copy Share Image
As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear,… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important… — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image