Ephemeral Quotes

“And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.”
― Jimi Hendrix

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

“Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.”
― Prince, Prince - 1999 Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords

“Today is an ephemeral ghost...

A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist."

In mundane terms, it marks a "leap" in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up!

But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability...

A day of unlocked potential.

Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't you?

Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“For every tale carved in rock there are more inscribed on autumn leaves or woven into spiderwebs.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“If today is not your day,
then be happy
for this day shall never return.
And if today is your day,
then be happy now
for this day shall never return.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be.”
― Iain M. Banks, Excession

“Don't fret my dear. If art is translation of the ephemeral into observable form, then always remember that it is the translationn that is the craft. The craft is that which can always be improved. But the ephemeral is that which only you have been able to observe, and that which only you have chosen to translate, and so in a way, the ephemeral is you, and it is already beautiful.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“...beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“The flâneur is he who consecrates his own life to the instant, to ephemeral things.”
― Federico Castigliano, Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris

“Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS

“Metaphor is one of the mechanisms by which our imaginations assimilate the world. We give sense to things through comparison. We theorise about things we are trying to understand and describe by alluding to characteristics they share with other things. We create new things by emulating the familiar. The attraction of metaphor is not exclusive to our attempts to make sense of the world through words. Thousands of years ago, architectural construction originated in metaphor. Sometime in the distant past, we began consciously constructing places as lasting metaphors for those ephemeral places we make just by being in the world or adopt in our natural surroundings.”
― Simon Unwin, Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

“Then maybe we should enjoy our happy-for-now.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Exiting a bus, déjà vu overwhelmed me, that ephemeral phenomena of alignment so perfect it is eerie.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“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?”
― Alastair Reynolds, Thousandth Night

“Fate will allow the world
Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.”
― Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI

“Hutte répétait qu'au fond, nous sommes tous des "des hommes des plages" et que "le sable - je cite ses propre termes - ne garde que quelques secondes l'empreinte de nos pas".”
― Patrick Modiano, Rue des Boutiques Obscures

“If, then, I had a pen at hand, I could capture that moment in two lines in the Vasantatilaka meter – my meter of preference. But scenes such as these have an ephemeral quality. You capture them as you experience them after which they are gone.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, Game of Big Numbers

“The human in the long run is always momentary.”
― Byron Rizzo, Polypticon, Part I: The Joint Political-Informatic Effort Project

“Some concepts are merely ephemeral.

To the allwise, no mystery.
To the immortal, no pain.
To the human, no hope
To the universe, no purpose.”
― Monaristw

“The 'self', which is nothing but thought, cannot contemplate its dissolution and invents the fiction of immortality, eternity. Who has ever seen or known eternity! It is a projection, just a fanciful notion. What we know is that everything is ephemeral, everything passes, and everything changes its form.”
― KRISHNA MURTHY ANNIGERI VASUDEVA RAO, FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“Sunrise and sunset - nature's fleeting brushstrokes, a photographer's quest to preserve their ephemeral poetry.”
― Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

“devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally never gave, until there were too many kisses to count or remember, and the memory of love proved not love at all and needed a replacement, which our bodies found, and then the giggles subsided, and the laughter dimmed, and darkness enfolded all of us and we gave away our childhood for nothing and we died”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

“And all the ink, all that remained of his father, was washed from my hands.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

“En un instante fugaz, tan efímero como la vida misma, su tiempo se acabó antes de que pudiera decir adiós a aquellos que lo amaban.”
― Angel Monge

“In a fleeting moment, as ephemeral as life itself, his time rain ran out before he could say goodbye to those who loved him.”
― Angel Monge, The Time Codes: The Quest to Unravel the Truth

“In a fleeting moment, as ephemeral as life itself, his time ran out before he could say goodbye to those who loved him.”
― Angel Monge, The Time Codes: The Quest to Unravel the Truth

“Was I more like my father than I thought? No. The beauty of the ephemeral was in its impermanence; I couldn't have let myself feel for Blake had I not known there would be an end. And I could admit it now: I did feel for him. There was safety here, at the end of our short story, and it made me bold.”
― Heidi Heilig, The Girl from Everywhere

“Expectations are like clouds—beautiful from afar, yet vanishing when you reach for them.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul