Ephemeral Quotes

I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this business. I know that to be successful, I have to be frightened. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.

I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

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.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

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.

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

I don't like ephemeral things; I like things that last forever

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything.

He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

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.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair

Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.

The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

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.

Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.

fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

While all other things are uncertain,
evanescent,
and ephemeral,
virtue alone is fixed with deep roots;
it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die.
Beauty is eternal and ugliness,
thank God,
is ephemeral.
Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.