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Quotes About Fleeting

...everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
And I thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
If I blink she'll disappear, " he told her. She looked at him and said, "Maybe that is the best thing for you.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
A relationship is like a bubble the more you chew the lesser its tastes.
~ Taimoor Madni
Be that fragnance which fades in breezes of cold air but always gives intense smell.
~ Sakin Maharjan
A fleeting second on someone's news feed, No dearth of meanings for those who read, Not my stories but 'tis what I think, I say I don't write poems, I just write dreams.
~ Sanhita Baruah
For a man he get his own ship and his own strong wind, but he cannot stop missing all the passing breezes that never come again.
~ Tahar Mtibaa
it took seven years to make John a hero and just seven days to make him a failure.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But I never considered it as other than a transitory life.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
At almost every step in life, we meet with young men of just about Holgrave's age, for whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, even after mucha nd careful inquiry, we never happen to hear another word. The effervescence of youth and passion, and the fresh gloss of the intellect and imagination, endow them with a false brilliancy, which makes fools of themselves and other people.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love remains mortal
~ Neal Shusterman
Everything feels right with the world, and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.
~ Neal Shusterman
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The man allured by a passing face, For ever bears the chastisement Of having wished to change his place.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Ha buscado por doquier la belleza pasajera, fugaz, de la vida presente, el carácter de aquello que el lector nos permitió llamar la modernidad.
~ Charles Baudelaire
fugaz, que se metamorfosea con tal frecuencia.
~ Charles Baudelaire
the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they were so beautiful. they dont make it, the beautiful die young and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.
~ Charles Bukowski
the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.
~ Charles Bukowski
you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
~ Charles Bukowski
Beautiful thoughts, and beautiful women never last.
~ Charles Bukowski
all people start to come apart finally and there it is: just empty ashtrays in a room or wisps of hair on a comb in the dissolving moonlight.
~ Charles Bukowski
Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
~ Charles Bukowski
Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.
~ Charles Bukowski
it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.
~ Charles Bukowski