Nick Harkaway Quotes

Nothing is forever in the Theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot and then its gone.

Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.

The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.

But the tune ends too soon for us all

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.