JR Quotes

All things are only transitory.

I think everything is temporary.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

Ephemeral should be the default.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

No blessing lasts forever.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Wind and fortune are not lasting.

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.

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

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

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

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Because in a split second, it's gone.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

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

That's kind of just the nature of our business, is that you're really putting a lot of energy and time and care into something that isn't necessarily going to last forever.