evanescent nature Quotes

As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures, telling our brief story.

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.

Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.

Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.