Evanescent Quotes

43 quotes by 42 authors

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. — Samuel Butler
It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this… — Jack Kornfield
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this… — Abraham Lincoln
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long… — John Ruskin
If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent… — Martin Luther
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.… — James Joyce
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. — Julia Child
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can… — Tim Wynne-Jones
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief. — Rae Armantrout
Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the… — William Clark
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets. — Constantin Stanislavski
Just because something is invisible doesn't mean it isn't there. At any given time, there are a host of invisibles floating among us. There are… — Claire Messud
The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in… — Thomas Merton
All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean… — Joseph Conrad
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and… — James Gleick
Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our… — John Ruskin
The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent. — Swami Vivekananda
Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It… — Bill Buford
We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn â€” the melody of… — William Mackergo Taylor

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