Ephemeral Quotes

• Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Lying, Spring

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Bloom (2009). “Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.198, Infobase Publishing

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• Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Remember, Remembered

  Marcus Aurelius (2011). “Meditations: with selected correspondence”, p.31, OUP Oxford

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• Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eternal

  Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

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• Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Time, Simplicity, Lasting

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• I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

  Maggie Smith

  Theatre, Gone, Ghost

  "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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• What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

  Frida Kahlo

  Absurd

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• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

  Florence King

  Memories, Literature, Nostalgia

  "Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye". Book by Florence King, 1989.

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• One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.

  Napoleon Hill

  Love Is, Worry, Warning

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.142, Penguin

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• And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes - you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Falling In Love, Sorry, Eye

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• This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Space, Sight

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• So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

  John Towner Williams

  Memories, People, Done

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• I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Mud, Weak

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Mean, Danger, Disappearance

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

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• All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Reputation, Dignity, Fame

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (35), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Despair, Matter, Novel

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta: A Novel”, p.79, Macmillan

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• The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Race, Passing Away

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.22, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

  William E. Simon

  Love, Freedom, Breathing

  William E. Simon (1979). “Time for Truth”, Berkley

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• We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Light, Needs, Demand

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.599, Penguin

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• Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspirational, Dream, Badass

  Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

  Eva Green

  Congratulations, Desire, Relax

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• It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.

  Hans Arp

  Dark, Artist, Light

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• Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment
  I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven,
  Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator,
  And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

  Ptolemy

  Spring, Night, Heaven

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• Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

  John Malkovich

  Theater

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• Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

  Dee Hock

  Substance, Form, Endure

  "Dee Hock on Management" by M. Mitchell Waldrop, www.fastcompany.com. October 31, 1996.

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• How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Doe, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.87, Penguin UK

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