Ephemeral Quotes

"The preparation for a film is so ephemeral and hard -- you`re lucky if you get a day of rehearsal or a chat with the director or actors on set. You really don`t know what to do. Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it`s a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I`m doing!"

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

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

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

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.

I love live performance because it only happens for that two hours or whatever. It`s so ephemeral and that makes it so beautiful to me.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

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.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

The Universe is called, with everything in it, MAYA, because all is temporary therein, from the ephemeral life of a fire-fly to that of the Sun.

What avails love when life is so ephemeral? What avaiIs a mortal's love for the immortal? Love that is snuffed out by death's passing blast Love without the pain, the passion that consumes? A flickering spark I am, aglow for a fleeting glance Flow vain for a flickering spark to chase an eternal flame! Grant me the bliss of eternal life, O Lord, And mine will be the ecstasy of eternal love. Give me the pleasure of an everlasting pain An agony that lacerates my soul for ever.

Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one`s own or another`s spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, `Love is as love does`.