Ephemeral Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss— unadulterated and unconfined—in which…

— Sol Luckman

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the…

— Angela Carter

She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to wrap himself…

— Julia Quinn

What I was talking about was, of course, very autobiographical - '68 was the moment when all the young people were incredibly excited, because…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

“They understood, as few have understood before or since, how fleeting life is and how pointless to try to hold on to things or…

— Thomas Cahill

The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams…

— Charles Dickens

“She knew how to hit to a hair's breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that…

— Thomas Hardy

“And the purple parted before it, snapping back like skin after a slash, and what it let out wasn't blood but light: amazing orange…

— Stephen King

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

— Matt Haig

“I remember the rain, the lightning across the sky and the thunder that followed, pounding against the glass windows of the inn. The smell…

— K.S. Villoso

All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares…

— Monique Truong

It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were…

— Anonymous