Ephemeral Quotes

153 quotes by 130 authors

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every… — Isabel Allende
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. Itâ€™s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both… — Muriel Barbery
Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a… — Gosho Aoyama
In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put… — Muriel Barbery
Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace.… — Ellen Hopkins
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. — Nikola Tesla
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity… — Marcel Proust
The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star,… — Carl Sagan
When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand… — Erlend Loe
He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and… — Napoleon Hill
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible… — Blaise Cendrars
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth. — Ken Auletta
I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be. — Unknown Author
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it. — Rafael Vinoly
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to… — Brian Eno

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