Quotes about Ephemeral

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

Possessions are mere transient effects that come when they are required, and after their purpose has been served, pass away.

Things of this world all eventually reveal what incapable anchors they really are.

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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; remember, Lord, how short my time is; remember that I am but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. My days are as grass, as a flower of the field; for the wind goeth over me, and I am gone, and my place shall know me no more.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

Sic transit gloria mundi [So passes away the glory of this world].

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Thus passes the glory of the world).

To-day man is, and to-morrow he will be seen no more. And being removed out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. O the dulness and hardness of man's heart, which thinketh only of the present, and looketh not forward to the future. Thou oughtest in every deed and thought so to order thyself, as if thou wert to die this day.