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Quotes About Fleeting

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Short stories can be like photographs, catching people at some moment in their lives and trapping the memory for ever . There they are, smiling or frowning, looking sad, happy, serious, surprised ... And behind those smiles and those frowns lie all the experience of life, the fears and delights, the hopes and the dreams
~ Katherine Mansfield
But Time was a fickle ally, fleeting and inconstant
~ Kathleen Kirkwood
Someone had collected shards of bone and brain pudding and sealed them in a Ziploc bag. The plastic sack lay in the man's lap, as though he'd been put in charge of watching over his own brain.
~ Kathy Reichs
Two weeks, you
~ Katie Flynn
Do you ever think about how tears undo themselves as they run down your face, how that's what crying is, tears unrolling themselves until they are nothing?
~ Katie Williams
But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.
~ Keira Knightley
Death was like that, casual with its cruelty.
~ Keith Rosson
Flowers are a lot like friendships - beautiful but not meant to last.
~ Kelly Marrapodi-Munsell
Imperceptible It withers in the world, This flower-like human heart.
~ Kenneth Rexroth
Beauty's of a fading nature Has a season and is gone!
~ burns robert ii
But O the mad heart, it is beating! and beauty seems lastingly bright, As if it could never go fleeting afar on the feet of delight, And be lost in the thicket of night!
~ bynner witter ii
My temper's only like a summer storm. It's over in a minute.
~ byron henry james
Like in a dream, everything seemed to be on the point of vanishing but at the same time ablaze with persistent reality.
~ César Aira
We're trivial pissants in the big scheme of things, fleas, fly shit in the pepper.
~ C.J. Box
Beauty is fleeting. We must enjoy what we have before time steals it away.
~ C.W. Gortner
It was one of those almostmoments
~ Callie West
Isn't what being young is about? Believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man who would live forever.
~ Cameron Crowe
The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.
~ Camille Paglia
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
~ Candice Bergen
Someone once said, People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. They forgot one other option: Some people come only to give us their contact information, let us know that we really need to get together sometime, and why don't we give them a call?
~ Caprice Crane
One minute you're on top of the world and the next minute you're gone you're gone and nobody can help you.
~ Gavin Edwards
nothing that beautiful lasts forever.
~ Gayle Forman
The rain falls endlessly, and even on the hottest of summer days, blooming white cumulus clouds float above, their shadows reminding you that summer's heat is fleeting, and the rain's never far off
~ Gayle Forman