Quotes About Fleeting

and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

And yet for all that I still had never gotten used to the breathtaking impermanence of things.

because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second. I

A few peace activists, looking like peace activists all over the world, young, unassailable, and romantic, hand out roses. The message is old, the gesture likewise: the flower as a sign of good. There's a flaw in the symbolism, however, a permanent gash in this goodness: the flower withers. It lives for a moment. Then it withers in your hands.

luck could be a fleeting thing. It had to be earned and then guarded with everything you had.

The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy.

I know a conquistador when I see one. I know all about making a splash. It isn't hard. If you shout loud enough, for long enough, a crowd will gather to see what all the noise is about. It's the nature of crowds. They don't stay long, unless you give them reason.

Nothing lasts, not forever. Not laughter, not lust, not even life itself. Not forever. Which is why we make the most of what we have.

Nothing lasts, not forever. Not laughter, not lust, not even life itself. Not forever. Which is why we make the most of what we have. Why

Über Berg und Tal, über Feld und Flur werd ich vergehen, verwehen - Ach, alles ereignet sich einmal nur, aber einmal muss alles geschehen ...

Quisiera que siempre fuera así. +Siempre es sólo un momento.

He combed his milk-white hair and crooned a tune to himself, clipped on his yellow chamois shoulder holster and stepped out into the soft night and his smooth car. As he drove, he considered the stars. It would all be over in a flash.

Charlie often told me we were living on borrowed time out here. I don't want to borrow any more time. I want time to stop so that tomorrow never comes, so that dawn will never happen.

Half a page --- and the morning is already ancient.

Nothing lasts. Not even literary or artistic fame protects worldly things around us.

Soldiers were coming in with just bits of their bodies, falling in love with me for an hour and then dying.

Hello Buddy, good-bye Buddy. Caring was brief. There was a contract only until death.

In loving life you love what can't survive.

Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory

Rekindled love is generally short-term.

The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.