Ephemeral Quotes - Page 2

• Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

  Stefan Zweig

  Art, Power, Forgotten

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• What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Trying, Quality, Building

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• I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

  Thornton Wilder

  Adultery, Dentist, Not Interested

  1961 In the New York Times, 6 Mar.

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• Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not pursued with the same heartfelt intensity as when first born. Slowly, subtly, a dream becomes elusive and ephemeral. People who've lost their own dreams become pessimists and cynics. They feel like the time and devotion spent on chasing their dreams were wasted. The emotional scars last forever.

  Dean Karnazes

  Dream, Passion, Emotional

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.78, Atlantic Books

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• To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Farewell, Men, Play

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu.

  Florence King

  Memories, Style, Mind

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• Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Unfair, Dangerous

  "The Truth About Style". Book by Stacy London, p. 12, 2012.

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• A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

  Christian Dior

  Dresses, Female, Pieces

  "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New". Book by Marie France Pochna (p. 170), 1996.

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• The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.

  Richard E. Grant

  Fashion, Moving, Pace

  "My Perfect Weekend: Richard E Grant". Interview with Anna Tyzack, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 16, 2010.

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• In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Definitions, Made, Theater

  "Rafael Viñoly Takes The Opera Stage". Interview with Zachary Woolfe, observer.com. July 26, 2011.

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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. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Light, Hands

  Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1857). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Literati”, p.499

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• One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

  Julia Leigh

  Atmosphere, Important, Tone

  "Interview: Sleeping Beauty Director Julia Leigh" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. November 29, 2011.

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• Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

  Emilio Estevez

  Film, Illusion, Fame

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• Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Sound, Tip Of The Iceberg, Fleeting

  "The Big Interview: Yo-Yo Ma pays back his debt to Toronto", by Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. May 25, 2012.

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• People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

  Nate Silver

  People, Appreciate, Stills

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• The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.

  Pablo Casals

  Spiritual, Art, Wings

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• Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Forever, Trying, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.

  Judith Weir

  Art, People, Effort

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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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• Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

  Carl Jung

  Summer, Thinking, Civilization

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.37, North Atlantic Books

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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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• This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to leaven the loaf of evil: it leaves a loophole, albeit a small one, for a future escape from bondage.

  Horace Annesley Vachell

  Evil, Matter, Helping

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• We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Fall, Land, Raindrops

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.428, Macmillan

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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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• 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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