49 Quotes About Ephemeral

For every tale carved in rock there are more inscribed on autumn leaves or woven into spiderwebs.

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

It was created to endure for a specific moment in time. Like a sandcastle, or an ice sculpture. Here, and then gone. In a way, that's the beauty of it. Who'd marvel at a sandcastle, if sandcastles lasted forever?

The human in the long run is always momentary.

Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion.

No empire lasts forever, no dynasty continues unbroken. Some day, you and I will be mere legends. All that matters is whether we did what we could with the life that was given to us.

Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and shaded them. She liked the way the word sounded in her head. I am an ephemeral. It made her feel like something passing and precious.

Some ephemeral moments must be given a memory, because the temporality of an instant may radiate a twinkle of eternity.( "Crystallization under an umbrella" )

And a moment that ought to have lasted for everHas come and gone before I knew.