Ephemeral Quotes

153 Ephemeral quotes by 130 unique authors

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of… — A. S. Byatt
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was… — Stephen King
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop… — Roland Barthes
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that… — W. Somerset Maugham
And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes--you're sorry, for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral. — Charles Baudelaire
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It… — Kim Harrison
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.... — Jorge Luis Borges
...he took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral… — Milan Kundera
I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I… — Jack Kerouac
Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's just ephemeral, that… — Arundhati Roy
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow.… — Jorge Luis Borges
Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair. — Karl Lagerfeld
Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not… — Dean Karnazes
Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can… — Muriel Barbery
We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will… — Aron Ralston
A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to… — Nick Harkaway
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part… — Carl Jung

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