Elaine Stritch Quotes

Wind and fortune are not lasting.

I think everything is temporary.

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

Ephemeral should be the default.

All things are only transitory.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

No blessing lasts forever.

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

Life is like this: things come and go.

Dreams rise like the sun and set like the sun: One minute, it is high and bright; the next minute, you might lose it.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

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

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.

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

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

It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

Nothing is taken care of forever.

Nothing is permanent.