Quotes about Ephemerality
Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.
— John Updike
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
— Marcus Aurelius
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
— Marcus Aurelius
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
— John Donne
What is will not last forever.
— Paul David Tripp
Thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.
— Paul Hoffman
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
— Job 7:7
The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
— Job 7:8
He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
— Job 7:10
Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
— Job 14:2
The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
— Job 20:9
The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
— Job 20:11