Ephemeral Quotes

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. (John Williams)
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. View quote
Christian Dior
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. View quote
Denis Diderot
I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto. View quote
Scott Rudin
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private. (Andy Goldsworthy)
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. View quote
Mario Vargas Llosa
What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day. View quote
Carl Sagan
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. View quote
Florence King
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it. View quote
Edward Teller
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come. View quote
Johannes Kepler
Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or "dematerialized." (Lucy R. Lippard)
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. View quote
Maggie Smith
I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral. View quote
Moon Unit Zappa
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it. View quote
Rafael Vinoly
Like most people of my age, I feel a longing for what is lost and cannot be restored. But if the happy pursuits and casual beauty of youth prove ephemeral, something better can endure, and endure until our last moment on earth. And that is the honor we earn and the love we give if at a moment in our lives we sacrifice for something greater than self-interest. We cannot choose the moments. They arrive unbidden by us. We can choose to let the moments pass, and avoid the difficulties they entail. But the loss we would incur by that choice is much dearer than the tribute we once paid to vanity and pleasure. View quote
John McCain