Ephemeral Quotes

"Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change" "Seizing the day, amidst its acceleration and decay" "I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days" "Clocks slay time time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels only when the clock stops does time come to life." "I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire I give it to you not that you may remember time but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it." "Life is transient and dynamic, moving from one position to another. " "The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come" "The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it." "Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction" "They give birth astride of a grave the light gleams an instant then it's night once more" "It is evident that everything is in a continual flux, and it is as impossible to find any certain individual in the world as it is to take up any definite quantity of water in the ocean." "It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away " "All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "In itself a wall on which an artist works so that it disappears is a marvelous creation" "Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."