Mark Twain Quotes

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

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.

All things are only transitory.

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

The fame game's fun, but it's not forever.

Ephemeral should be the default.

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

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

No blessing lasts forever.

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

It doesn't matter how popular an actor you are: nobody will remember you forever.

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

Life is like this: things come and go.

Everything is created to be annihilated.

Life is just a moment of time and it pass by

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.