Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I dont make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away. — Ian K. Smith Copy Share Image
Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life. — Anthony Zee Copy Share Image
“Death doesn't frighten me, except to make me feel that life is ephemeral.” — Miranda France Copy Share Image
Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure. — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
...he took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Ephemeral, highly ephemeral is the world of formations; ephemeral, highly ephemeral are our clothes and hairstyles, and our hair and our bodies… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think,… — F. David Peat Copy Share Image
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very… — Maxine Hong Kingston 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
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who… — Brian Eno 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
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
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
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write.… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Celebrities were quick to understand that paparazzi could make icons of them. The more a star is followed and admired, the greater… — Ron Galella Copy Share Image
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as… — David Wright Copy Share Image
“And we all nodded at him: the man of finance, the man of accounts, the man of law, we all nodded at… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I just really like writing and making television shows. There are ego rewards in doing battle with other television programs in prime… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
“On the banks of the Euphrates find a secret garden cunningly walled. There is an entrance, but the entrance is guarded. There… — Jeanette Winterson 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
“Today is an ephemeral ghost... A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
