Ephemeral Quotes

I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this business. I know that to be successful, I have to be frightened. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.

I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

I don't like ephemeral things; I like things that last forever

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.