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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• Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eternal

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

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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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• 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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• Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Time, Simplicity, Lasting

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

  George Santayana

  Love, Memories, Passion

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• As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

  Clive Barker

  Theatre, Charm, Ups & Downs

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• I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Money, Crazy, House

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• Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

  Mary Douglas

  Jobs, Mobility, Stability

  "Group dynamics" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2007.

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• Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

  Denis Diderot

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Threat

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.

  Muriel Barbery

  Movement, Moments, Passing

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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• Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair

  Judith Light

  Hair, Looks, Function

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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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