Quotes about Ephemerality

But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you.

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

All things pass, suga' pea. All the things a this worl' got a time for bornin' and time for dyin', and a time for troublin' and a time for restin'. Ssshhh

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.

She dwells with Beauty--Beauty that must die: And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding Adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee mouths sips:

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

The beauty of the earth is but a breath, and man is but a shadow. What sympathy should a holy preacher have with either?

Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.