Quotes about Ephemeral

Life is brief, art is long.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.

If you could know —if you could always know —when the lasts in life are coming, you'd handle them differently. You'd savor. You'd stop. You'd let nothing else invade the moment.

Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

Trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.