Top 253 Ephemeral Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto.
Only the ephemeral is of lasting value. — © Eugene Ionesco
Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water.
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.
Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing; some are rich, some are poor, some are more knowledgeable, some are less knowledgeable - in countless myriad universes, forever.
Storage problems make neon signs the most ephemeral of commercial arts.
All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.
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.
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.
What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral — © W. H. Auden
Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral
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’
But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.
Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life.
Trump 'accomplishments' are ephemeral, coincidental and accidental.
I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.
Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
Ephemeral should be the default.
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu.
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal Reality-Now.
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair
This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There's a 'flavour of the month' aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating.
I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.
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.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything. — © Mata Amritanandamayi
Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything.
There are many things to like about 'Mr. Robot,' the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits.
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.
I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
There's a property in Panama where Trump has collected somewhere around $30 million just from selling his name to this property - it's somewhere between $30 million and $50 million. It would be so easy for a developer to slap on an extra $6 million to a Trump licensing deal and have that be a backdoor bribe. Who are we to say what that is worth? It's so ephemeral. And this is the appeal of selling something as ephemeral as a brand name, is that it can be inflated beyond all reason.
Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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
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.
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.
Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.
Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.
I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.
As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.
Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.
Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.
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