Quotes about Ephemerality
He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
— Job 27:19
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
— Psalm 37:2
Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
— Psalm 37:10
yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
— Psalm 37:36
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
— Psalm 39:5
You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
— Psalm 90:3
You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
— Psalm 90:5
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
— Psalm 102:3
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
— Psalm 102:11
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
— Psalm 104:29
May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
— Psalm 129:6
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
— Hosea 13:3