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Ephemeral Quotes

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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.
Paul Tudor Jones

Authors on Ephemeral Quotes: Arthur Schopenhauer Marcus Aurelius Rafael Vinoly David Byrne Mary Douglas Florence Earle Coates Maggie Smith Antoine de Saint-Exupery Ellen Glasgow Jason Silva Rosanne Cash Brian Eno Ken Auletta Taylor Swift Dee Hock Mary McCarthy Florence King Nate Silver Emilio Estevez John Malkovich Sylvester Stallone Bruce Hoffman A. S. Byatt Nikos Kazantzakis Thornton Wilder Denis Diderot Muriel Barbery Karl Lagerfeld Andy Goldsworthy Eugene Ionesco Jorge Luis Borges Ian K. Smith Allan Bloom
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I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.
Nikos Kazantzakis

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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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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.
Jason Silva

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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.
Carl Sagan

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

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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?
Frida Kahlo

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

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Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
Charles Baudelaire

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

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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
Maxine Hong Kingston

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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
Florence King

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

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

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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
Eugene Ionesco

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

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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.
David Byrne

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

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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.
Dee Hock

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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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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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.
Stephen King

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

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

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Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.
John Malkovich

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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.
Clive Barker

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

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

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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.
Sylvester Stallone

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Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

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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.
Stefan Zweig

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

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Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
Nate Silver

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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.
Allan Bloom

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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.
Ken Auletta

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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.
Thornton Wilder

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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.
Muriel Barbery

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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
Jack Kerouac

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

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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.
Julia Leigh

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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

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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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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.
Rosanne Cash

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I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature. You can just delete an e-mail and it's like it was never there.
Taylor Swift

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With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.
Mary McCarthy

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I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.
Dan Savage