Quotes About Fleeting

If a pleasure lasts forever, it isn't a pleasure anymore.

Mind is obsessed with fleeting illusions, while Spirit is constant and free.

Not only the products, even we come with the expiry date

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.

A brief life burns brightly.

Remember: life is a breath; soon I will vanish from your sight. The eye that looks will not see me; you may search, but I will be gone. Like a cloud fading in the sky, man dissolves into death. He leaves the whole world behind him and never comes home again.

Alas, words were but empty things, devoid of power and all too easily broken, discarded, and forgotten.

time is short and life fleeting and that nothing matters except that which is eternal.

Lots of madmen have had their say But only for a day.

What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

This will never come again

The dust dreams of the world it had once been. But the dust, alas, does not command the wind.

Well, love is a difficult thing to hold on to. It's a slippery little beast. It will hold you and then it will elude you at any moment.

Everything could be taken away at the snap of a finger.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly

Man is mortal and, as has rightly been said, unexpectedly mortal.

El hombre es mortal, y, como acertadamente se dijo, es mortal de repente.

Yapacak bir ÅŸey yok: Ä°nsanoÄŸlu fani ve isabetle söylendiÄŸi üzere aniden fani.

I realized that there was no point or sense in chasing after happiness that had perished.

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening.

History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.