Quotes about Ephemeral

All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well.

He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

We live in a state of siege. If one takes a close look at each fragment of a moment, one might choke with terror. Within our bodies disintegration inexorably advances; soon we shall fall sick and die. Our loved ones will leave us, the memory of them will dissolve in the tumult; nothing will remain. Just a few clothes in the wardrobe and someone in a photograph, no longer recognized. The most precious memories will dissipate. Everything will sink into darkness and vanish.

What is will not last forever.

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.