Quotes about Ephemerality
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.
— Samuel Johnson
Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
— Thomas a Kempis
God warns us to not get too attached to what's around us because it is temporary. We're told, "Those in frequent contact with the things of the world should make good use of them without becoming attached to them, for this world and all it contains will pass away."9
— Rick Warren
Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower.
— William Wordsworth
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
— Richard Paul Evans
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
— Abraham Lincoln
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms, Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly That flieth unto judgment without screen?
— Dante Alighieri
Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
— Marcus Aurelius