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Quotes About Fleeting

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
~ Carl Sandburg
We go like flies when we come to the end of the summer . . . And who is going to prevent it?
~ Tennessee Williams
That time is short and it doesn't return again.
~ Tennessee Williams
Time was as thin as hope.
~ Terry Brooks
Life was uncertain. Death was forever.
~ Terry Brooks
His wishes surfaced like ghosts and fled into the night.
~ Terry Brooks
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.
~ Terry Pratchett
No one remembers the singer. The song remains.
~ Terry Pratchett
A month went by quickly. It didn't want to hang around.
~ Terry Pratchett
Men said things like peace in our time or an empire that will last a thousand years, and less than half a lifetime later no one even remembered who they were, let alone what they had said or where the mob had buried their ashes.
~ Terry Pratchett
There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain in case the mere act of acknowledging it will cause it to vanish, like trying to look at a photon. You can only sidle up to it, lookong past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world
~ Terry Pratchett
It was usually a case of heir today, gone tomorrow.
~ Terry Pratchett
Men come and go, but dust accumulates.
~ Terry Pratchett
It was the terror of impermanence, the knowledge that all this would pass away, that a beautiful voice or a wonderful figure was something whose arrival you couldn't control and whose departure you couldn't delay.
~ Terry Pratchett
So little time. We have so little time on this earth with the people we love.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Alles, was uns Freude machen soll, ist an Zeit und Umstände gebunden, und was uns heute noch beglückt, ist morgen wertlos.
~ Theodor Fontane
Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
~ James Montgomery
I went because the nights are numbered and I do not know the count.
~ Karen Maezen Miller
Just like that. Blink of an eye, if I'd blinked. I hadn't. He'd vanished
~ Karen Marie Moning
There are people I stand near a single time and skirt forevermore.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Ölürken, geçiÅŸ s?ras?nda, bir an var. YaÅŸam yerini ölüme, dolu yerini boÅŸa b?rak?yor. Bir an. Her ÅŸey çok h?zl?. Geri dön, geri dön, diye ba??rmak istiyorum. Bir dakikaya daha ihtiyac?m var. Bir gülümsemeye daha. Her ÅŸeyi düzeltmek için bir ÅŸansa daha. Ama gitti. Yok art?k. Nereye gitti? Hayata ölümden sonra ne oluyor? Bir yere mi gidiyor, yoksa tamamen mi kayboluyor?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Killed time is an abortion, life that never gets lived, gone, just gone.
~ Karen Marie Moning
You don't even live once.
~ Karl Kraus
You came and you will be gone. You don't even have to do something for it, it happens by itself. You came by itself and you will be gone by itself. So, what do you worry about?
~ Karl Renz