Ephemerality Quote by Ashim Shanker

“Now, when I read, I read not, For interrupting tears Obliterate the etchings Too costly for repairs.”

— Emily Dickinson

“It is upon such stones that men attempt to permanently etch history so they will not exist in a vacuum; it is the final…

— Rob Bignell

You can sand something forever. You can keep working on it. All the arts are like that: there's no magical finish line. You get…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

“A big rock can handle a hammer blow, it just gets chipped a little, what it can't handle is erosion”

— Stefan Molyneux

“The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of…

— Douglas Adams

“You know the problem with drawing lines in the sand? With a breath of fresh air, they disappear.”

— Raymond Reddington

“Every leader needs to etch some things in granite (never-change core) and write some things in sand (must -change methods).”

— Will Mancini

“Making Final Fantasy X, anyway, look like an Etch A Sketch.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“That sand into which we bury ourselves in order not to see, is formed of words…and it is true that words, their labyrinths, the…

— Georges Bataille

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

— Oscar Wilde

“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble sinks, the…

— William Faulkner - Absalom Absalom

“In the literary machine that Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” constitutes, we are struck by the fact that all the parts are produced…

— Gilles Deleuze