Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

No blessing lasts forever.

I think everything is temporary.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

Nothing lasts forever

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

Ephemeral should be the default.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Time is not kind to everything.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

A trend is exactly that, and it's going to disappear.

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.

Wind and fortune are not lasting.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

Good things only can last so long.

Life is like this: things come and go.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

All things must pass, all things must pass away.

All things must pass.

All good things pass away.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.