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"Impermanent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... figuratively, sunken; one of those who have within themselves some immobility that makes the people and the things about them appear fleeting and unreal. For such, the world is a far distant thing, lying out on the rims of consciousness, delicate and impermanent as sunset hues or the lights and gestures of the dream. The music of Debussy is the magistral and classic picture of this distant and glamorous procession, this illusory and fantastical and transparent ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld
... were lofty, a ripple of sunshine flowed over the ceilings; and the periodical invasions of tourists from some passenger steamer in the harbor flitted through the wind-swept dusk of the apartments with the tumult of their unfamiliar voices and impermanent presences, like relays of migratory shades condemned to speed headlong round the earth without leaving a trace. The babble of their irruptions ebbed out as suddenly as it had arisen; the draughty corridors and the long chairs of the verandas knew their sight-seeing hurry or their prostrate ...
— End of the Tether • Joseph Conrad |
Words linked to "Impermanent" : short-lived, interim, improvised, ephemeral, episodic, transient, temporal, pro tempore, permanence, fugacious, jury-rigged, makeshift, working, impermanency, fly-by-night, temporary, shipboard, acting, impermanence, passing |
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