Ephemeral Quotes

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

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.

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

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

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

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.