Quotes About Fleeting

It is strange," the man said. "People get such a small amount of time. So many I've known say it—as soon as you feel you're getting a handle on things, the day is done, the night falls, and the light goes out.

Nothing is eternal, not even time itself.

Death comes, they whispered. Death comes to all. But life comes first. Cherish it.

Research on emotion shows that positive emotions wear off quickly.

To let ourselves sink into the joyful moments of our lives even though we know that they are fleeting, even though the world tells us not to be too happy lest we invite disaster—that's an intense form of vulnerability.

And in those fleeting moments, she understands that however much we might wish to sever ourselves from the past, ties of blood and memory remain. Even the most rebellious soul cannot be immune to that human truth.

That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

Arrebatada, repentina, inevitable, la felicidad cruza dejándonos el silencio como hacen los ángeles y las luciérnagas, igual que un colibrí o las hadas.

He doubted he would ever make it happen, but it made him feel a bit better, letting a dream form then watching it slowly fade away again. A

I am a parcel of vain strivings tied By a chance bond together, Dangling this way and that, their links Were made so loose and wide, Methinks, For milder weather.

I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.

One more ray of sun and I will be rotten.

En el mejor de los casos, la vida es fugaz y pasa rápidamente. Lo que hacemos en el tiempo breve que Dios nos concede sobre la Tierra es lo que nos sigue a la eternidad. Bienaventurados los que invierten bien su tiempo, cumplen su propósito divino y reciben la recompensa prometida.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

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

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There's the next young guy coming up that's always better than you. So, for me, it's just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.

I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.

Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to.

And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves.

She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.

Life is eternal and, at the same time, ephemeral.