Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.

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

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Ephemeral should be the default.

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

No blessing lasts forever.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

A trend is exactly that, and it's going to disappear.

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

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

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

Words writ in waters.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.

Nothing lasts forever

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

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

All things are only transitory.

Because in a split second, it's gone.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.