Eva Hesse Quotes

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really, we are dust in the wind.

We pass through this world but once.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

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

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

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

I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Our time on Earth is so random.

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

Time is long but life is short.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order.

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.