Quotes About Fleeting

As pineskeep the shape of the windeven when the wind has fled and is no longer there,so wordsguard the shape of maneven when man has fled and is no longer there.

The cradle is shallower than the grave.

We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death!

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

A little space of time before time expires; a little way of breath.

Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.

Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.

Time is a very shadow that passeth away.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

I am always looking for meaningful one-night stands.

Ships that pass in the night.

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.

We are here today and gone tomorrow.

Riches certainly make themselves wings.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

No wonder can last more than three days.

This world's a bubble.