Quotes about Ephemeral
Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their whole lives in the course of a single day. From the point of view of a mayfly, human beings are stolid, boring, almost entirely immovable, offering hardly a hint that they ever do anything. From the point of view of a star, a human being is a tiny flash, one of billions of brief lives flickering tenuously on the surface of a strangely cold, anomalously solid, exotically remote sphere of silicate and iron.
— Carl Sagan
We are like butterflies, who flutter for a day and think it's forever.
— Carl Sagan
There is no single entity whose identity is changeless. All things are constantly changing. Nothing endures forever or contains a changeless element called a self.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
— Carol Burnett
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds.
— Anne Lamott
Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.
— Joseph Addison
Special days, special moments don't last forever. Anyone knows that. Breezes of change blow hard and fast.
— Beverly Lewis
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...
— Victor Hugo
We love earthly things that rust and break. God loves heavenly things that last forever. We are overjoyed by our victories. He is overjoyed by our confessions.
— Max Lucado
Our days on earth are as a shadow. 1 CHRONICLES 29:15
— Billy Graham
Our days on earth are as a shadow. 1 CHRONICLES 29:15
— Billy Graham