Ephemeral Quotes

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

— Frida Kahlo

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

— Eugene Ionesco

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

— John Malkovich

You've got a new horizon It's ephemeral style.

— Gorillaz

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

— Dee Hock

“Policies are ephemeral; principles are eternal.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Life is ephemeral, Don't waste it looking up Big words.

— Anonymous

“All things ephemeral are made lovely in their brevity." --Death's Summer Coat (Elliot and Thompson, forthcoming)”

— Brandy Schillace

“The wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”

— Marquez Gabriel Garcia

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

— Moon Unit Zappa

I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

— Ian K. Smith

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

— Marcus Aurelius

“It was the exact combination of the ephemeral and the eternal that a dying man needed to know about.”

— Jane Smiley

“Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.”

— Remy de Gourmont

Trump 'accomplishments' are ephemeral, coincidental and accidental.

— Rick Wilson

I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“. . . these errand-boys and furtive and fugitive girls who, ignoring their doom, look in at shop windows? But I am…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Iain M. Banks

I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature.…

— Taylor Swift

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.…

— William Butler Yeats

“Some ephemeral moments must be given a memory, because the temporality of an instant may radiate a twinkle of eternity.( "Crystallization under…

— Erik Pevernagie

I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had one…

— Joss Whedon

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would…

— Aristotle

that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves…

— Vita Sackville-West

Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators…

— Jack Kerouac

He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it…

— William Faulkner

Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and…

— Giovanni Ribisi

Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild…

— Sarah MacLean

I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of…

— Isabel Allende

When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena;…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost…

— Lucy Corin

A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of…

— Elizabeth Drew

The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we…

— Laura Bush

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as…

— Russell Sherman

This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in…

— Bill Jay