Evanescent Quotes

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.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Words writ in waters.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

Nothing lasts forever

I feel like I wanna have a series of moments. It's scary when they say you're having a moment, because moments are momentary.

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

Life is like this: things come and go.

No blessing lasts forever.

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.

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

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

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

I think the best thing about a bubble is that it pops and is gone. That is what makes it so precious.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

All things are only transitory.

I think everything is temporary.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.