“And a moment that ought to have lasted for ever Has come and gone before I knew.” — Li Shang-yin Copy Share Image
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective. — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
“I guess I always knew that our time together would be fleeting. Ephemeral.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“Fate will allow the world Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair — Judith Light Copy Share Image
I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore,… — Michael Palin 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
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
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
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an… — Alice Poon 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
what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected… — Blaise Cendrars 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
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
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and… — Brian Eno 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
We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which… — H. P. Lovecraft 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
As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as… — Russell Sherman 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
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of… — Elizabeth Drew 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 really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.” — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
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