Ephemeral Quotes

153 Ephemeral quotes by 130 unique authors

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value. — Eugene Ionesco
All is Ephemeral, fame and the famous as well. — Marcus Aurelius
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and… — Johannes Kepler
Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis.… — Mike deGruy
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human… — George Santayana
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond… — Thomas Jefferson
Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And we do not… — Pope Francis
And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but… — William Shatner
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. — William E. Simon
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the… — Georges Cuvier
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair — Judith Light
Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure. — Emilio Estevez
As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live… — David Byrne
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty,… — William A. Niskanen
Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. — Marcus Aurelius
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no… — William Faulkner
Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was… — Unknown Author
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood.… — Eudora Welty
Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great… — Pope Francis
As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral… — Colson Whitehead
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral… — Martin Seligman
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and… — Remy de Gourmont
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal Reality-Now. — Sri Chinmoy
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in… — F. David Peat

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