Ephemeral Quotes

"What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?" "The true picture of the past flits by " "In this short Life that only lasts an hour how much how little is within our power" "The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it." "You are the music while the music lasts" "Alas, how fleeting and enfeebled life passes from the world" "The world will perish and all things pass" "The caravan of life shall always pass; do not breathe a word, let it pass" "We shall all, without exception, be forgotten." "If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?" "The town was paper but the memories were not" "The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul" "The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me" "Some things are more precious because they don't last long." "All things go, all things go."