“. . . these errand-boys and furtive and fugitive girls who, ignoring their doom, look in at shop windows? But I am… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image. — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
“What is it when your former life becomes your dreams? The things you took for granted are now in that mystical realm… — Nicole Adelle Flamer Copy Share Image
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
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
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
Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of… — Riordan Roett Copy Share Image
For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the… — Christopher Poole Copy Share Image
The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version… — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech,… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time;… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it. — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually… — Bruce Hoffman Copy Share Image
As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die… — Gosho Aoyama Copy Share Image
I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about… — Rirkrit Tiravanija Copy Share Image
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat… — Mira Bartok 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
While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image