Quotes about Ephemerality

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms, Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly That flieth unto judgment without screen?

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.