Ephemeral Quotes
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More Ephemeral Quotes
We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories [...] but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
florence king— "Déjà Views", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989), p. 112
"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories." "There’s a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn’t have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual."
john williams— John Williams, quoted from the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial CD liner notes
To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour , to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach , the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.
— Pablo Casals, in CONCERTS AT SAINT THOMAS - Saint Thomas Church
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
— Denis Diderot, in Quotes about Patriotism, p.4
I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.
Edward Teller— As quoted in The Martians of Science : Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (2006) by Istvan Hargittai, p. 251
I am not interested in the ephemeral — such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.
thornton wilder— The New York Times (6 November 1961)
All is ephemeral fame and the famous as well.
marcus aurelius— ?, ?.IV, 35.
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.
Arthur Schopenhauer— Vol. 2, Ch. 3, § 39
Built on sand, lacking a firm foundation, unstable, ephemeral, from the parable in the Bible (Mathews) of the two houses founded respectively on rock and on sand.
— In p.181 (Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations)
To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! ... that is what I call prayer.
— Claude Debussy, quoted in Claude Debussy: His Life and Works (1933) by Léon Vallas.
Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.
Allan Bloom— Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: 1988), p. 59
I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.
— Jonathan Ames, in Never Boring: The Curious Case Of Jonathan Ames
Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral. You can never see your own face, only a reflection , not the face itself.
— Farid ud-Din Attar, in Farid ud-Din Attar, p.21
All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well.
— Marcus Aurelius, inThe Quotable Intellectual: 1,417 Bon Mots, Ripostes, and Witticisms for ..., p.171
Let you sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fever burns away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children and the grave Proves the child ephemeral; But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie: Mortal , guilty , but to me The entirely beautiful .
— W. H. Auden, in A Book of Love Poetry, p.155
You judge of the continuous existence of the world , as an ephemeral insect might judge of yours. The world is eternal for you, as you are.
— Denis Diderot, in Diderot and the Encyclopaedists, p.64
The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.
— Richard E. Grant, in My Perfect Weekend: Richard E Grant
If Greer were a bit more honest and had a bit more perspective, she'd have a useful message to relay to young women about the perils of confusing sexual autonomy with the real but ephemeral ability to manipulate men.
Laura Miller— Brilliant Careers - "Germaine Greer" profile at Salon (22 June 1999).
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories...but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu .
— Florence King, in Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's Progress, p.29
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may determine the destiny of our nation (Yeah) in the ideological struggle against communism .
— Martin Luther King, Jr., in The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr: Symbol of the movement, January 1957 ..., p.211
Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
— Karl Lagerfeld, in The Truth About Style, p.12
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair .
— Judith Light, in Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks, p.195
I don't seek discomfort . But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.
— Michael Palin, in Michael Palin: 'I'm just curious about the world'
In endowing us with memory , nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation , the truth of immortality . The most ideal human passion is love , which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
— George Santayana, in Quotes by Santayana George, p.7
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
— Rafael Vinoly, in Rafael Viñoly Takes The Opera Stage
...the river valley is a magic box. To those who would observe , the pattern of colour and movement paint a picture that is a masterwork resulting from millions of years of nature's efforts, yet dynamic and ephemeral.
— Nancy S.M. Waldman, in Art of the Now – an essay of ephemeral art]]
Thou! thou! the vital , universal , giant force resistless, sleepless, calm , Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy, How will to e'er forget thee!
— Walt Whitman, in Walt Whitman, Philosopher Poet: Leaves of Grass by Indirection, p.126
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories .
— John Williams, in Conducting Business: Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro, p.110
