Ephemeral Quotes

153 Ephemeral quotes by 130 unique authors

What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it… — Frederick Lenz
Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing; some are rich,… — Frederick Lenz
Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory,… — Eudora Welty
Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a… — Judith Perelman Rossner
Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's… — Charles Durning
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird,… — Mira Bartok
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often… — Daniel Alarcon
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very… — Ursula K. Le Guin
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A… — Albert Camus
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the… — Madame de Stael
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax. — Eva Green
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. — Denis Diderot
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition… — Brian Eno
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. — Mario Vargas Llosa
Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this;… — Yo-Yo Ma
Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that. — John Malkovich
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past.… — Vikram Seth
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. — Maggie Smith
What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will… — Sylvester Stallone
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of… — Twyla Tharp
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in… — John Williams
fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt — Jack Kerouac
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the… — H P Lovecraft

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