Quotes about Ephemerality
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!
— Samuel Johnson
The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
— CS Lewis
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
— Victor Hugo
The past and the future (considered apart from the consequences of their content) are empty as a dream, and the present is only the indivisible and unenduring boundary between them.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
— Aristotle
He uses the world as if he used it not, 1 Cor. 7. 31.
— Jonathan Edwards
We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.
— Edith Schaeffer
Life is a breath, a passing breeze; a blade of grass, green and vibrant for a time, only to wither, die, and disappear. Soon you will be dead.
— Andy Andrews
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
— Robert Frost
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.
— F Scott Fitzgerald