Quotes about Ephemerality
By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on
— John Mayer
Life is a constant process of dying.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.
— Samuel Beckett
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!
— Samuel Johnson
The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
— CS Lewis
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
— Victor Hugo
So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
— Jesse Jackson
The past and the future (considered apart from the consequences of their content) are empty as a dream, and the present is only the indivisible and unenduring boundary between them.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
— Aristotle
He uses the world as if he used it not, 1 Cor. 7. 31.
— Jonathan Edwards
We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.
— Edith Schaeffer