Quotes About Fleeting

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it's only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it's gone forever.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

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.

The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!

Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger.

A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one tries to get hold of it.

Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

One lives but once in the world.