Quotes About Ephemerality

#1. I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. Ours is a culture that dances on the edge of ephemerality. If our servers slept for too long or if we left our iPads unplugged for too long, we'd wake up like Rip Van Winkle to find all of our book culture erased.

Jason Merkoski

#3. Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.

Frederick Crews

#4. Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.

Jamais Cascio

#5. Union and Communion: this is the essence of Christianity.

Heidi Baker

#6. Why have I
thought the dew
Ephemeral when I
Shall rest so short a time, myself,
On earth?

Adelaide Crapsey

#7. Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and shaded them. She liked the way the word sounded in her head. I am an ephemeral. It made her feel like something passing and precious.

Pamela Todd

#8. But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be.

Iain M. Banks

#9. Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

Linda Ellerbee

#10. In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of when. I ask those who feel that giving freedom to others somehow binds you, to please take a good look at what you are standing behind

Russell Simmons

#11. I think of the snow, falling, drifting upward. Of extending the ephemeral. Spaces follow spaces, burgeoning, and the air smells so sweet.

Meia Geddes

#12. Smart thinking is to know what you think and why you think it.

Toni Sorenson

#13. It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd ever known.

Rob Sheffield

#14. There are no plans, just people fooling themselves by attempting to design their fates and futures. It makes them feel invincible, even if it's for a transient period of time.

Kanza Javed

#15. I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.

Sebastian Horsley

#16. Supernatural simplicity viewed and perceived with complexity, naturally; many suffer from an outside-in misunderstanding.

T.F. Hodge

#17. We live a dying dream / If you know what I mean

Noel Gallagher

#18. We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

Steven Tyler

#19. Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.

Alain De Botton

#20. As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

Stacie Orrico

#21. Human says time goes by -
Time says human goes by

Anonymous

#22. We are here but for a second, but our impact ripples through time.

Neetal Parekh

#23. Etchings endure,
But not in Sand
Meanings Collide
To Unresolved Fragments
Codes fizzle to Static
They are not lost
But Unheard
Never lost
Fading slowly to Silence
By infinite degrees

Ashim Shanker

#24. I really don't like take-out.

Lela Rose

#25. Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

William Rathje

#26. I want each day to last forever . . . It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past. Even in the midst of a pleasurable outing I'm aware of how ephemeral it is.

Christina Baker Kline