Ephemeral Existence Quotes

#1. These parallel universes are not ghost worlds with an ephemeral existence; within each universe, we have the appearance of solid objects and concrete events as real and as objective as any.

Michio Kaku

#2. The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

A.S. Byatt

#3. Where there is love there is courage,
where there is courage there is peace,
where there is peace there is God.
And when you have God, you have everything.

Louise Penny

#4. Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#5. What is more important to a library than anything else
than everything else
is the fact that it exists.
[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]

Archibald MacLeish

#6. A pond full of information can sometimes be less useful than a cup full of insight

Gyan Nagpal

#7. I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.

Isabel Allende

#8. All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.

Uma Nnenna

#9. I let my kids make decisions for themselves, but some things are not up for discussion. When it's cold, they wear a coat.

Jen Mann

#10. I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

Jim Dine

#11. Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.

Christian D. Larson

#12. Are there some things we need to discuss or work on together?" "Do you have pain from your childhood?" "Is there anything we can do about it now?" "Can we heal together?

Karyl McBride

#13. When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all?
On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.

Erlend Loe

#14. Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

Matthew Henry

#15. I may have nothing inside me, but what would something be?

Haruki Murakami

#16. Concealed from view a face so face-like in its appearance as to be positively facial.

Stephen Leacock