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Ephemeral Quotes

"Forever is composed of nows"
Emily Dickinson
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet"
Emily Dickinson
"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
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde
"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
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one"
Albert Einstein
"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long."
Laozi
"We are but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass"
Omar Khayyam
"My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life"
Omar Khayyam
"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
"The finest day I ever had was when tomorrow never came"
Kurt Cobain
"Life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last"
Prince
"Reader, memory inevitably fails you."
Italo Calvino
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf"
Rabindranath Tagore
"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
"Seizing the day, amidst its acceleration and decay"
Walter Benjamin
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days"
John Keats
"Clocks slay time time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels only when the clock stops does time come to life."
William Faulkner
"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire I give it to you not that you may remember time but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it."
William Faulkner
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