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Ephemeral Quotes

"We are but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass"
Omar Khayyam
"Seizing the day, amidst its acceleration and decay"
Walter Benjamin
"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
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf"
Rabindranath Tagore
"Reader, memory inevitably fails you."
Italo Calvino
"Life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last"
Prince
"The finest day I ever had was when tomorrow never came"
Kurt Cobain
"We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye."
Pablo Neruda
"My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life"
Omar Khayyam
"Forever is composed of nows"
Emily Dickinson
"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long."
Laozi
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one"
Albert Einstein
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Time is not a thing thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time."
Martin Heidegger
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde
"The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing."
Alan Watts
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet"
Emily Dickinson