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Quotes About Fleeting

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but Heaven.
~ George Moore
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ali svaka svetlost brzo dogori i svaka sve?anost pro?e.
~ Ivo Andri?
A warm and close circle formed, like a new existence, created out of realities and yet itself unreal, which was not what it had been the day before nor what it would be the day after, but like a transient island in the flood of time.
~ Ivo Andri?
The clock stands still yet time does not. Even as he lies here he can feel time at work on him like a wasting disease, like the quicklime they pour on corpses. Time is gnawing away at him, devouring one by one the cells that make him up. His cells are going out like lights.
~ J M Coetzee
We begin to die with our first breath. Death is inside us, ticking closer, closer, with every beat of our heart. It is the end no man can escape. Yet we cling to life, we worship it despite its transience.
~ J.D. Robb
One shot. That was all you got. - Isaac
~ J.R. Ward
Life was too short, no matter how long you lived.
~ J.R. Ward
Life was too short, no matter how long you lived. -Ehlena's thoughts
~ J.R. Ward
Lo que hay entre nosotros. Tal vez sea un asunto de una noche o dos. Tal vez dure un mes. Tal vez una década. Lo único que sé es que la vida es demasiado corta como para no regresar aquí y estar contigo otra vez de esta manera. La vida es demasiado corta y me gusta mucho estar contigo como para preocuparme por algo distinto a tener otro momento como éste.
~ J.R. Ward
You're wasting your time on me. Might as well go find another girl to charm.
~ Jaci Burton
The beauty of things must be that they end.
~ Jack Kerouac
Pretty girls make graves
~ Jack Kerouac
But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do
~ Jack Kerouac
And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
~ Jack Kerouac
We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me.
~ Jack Kerouac
In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; Part 4, Chapter 5
~ Jack Kerouac
Sentí una punzada en el corazón, como me pasaba cada vez que veía que una chica que me gustaba y yo nos dirigíamos a puntos opuestos de este mundo demasiado grande.
~ Jack Kerouac
I think Americans, as a nation and culture, once something is recognized for a week or two, people kind of forget about.
~ Jordan Burroughs
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I felt unbelievably lucky to have the success I did with 'Goon Squad,' and I also felt the pressure of how fleeting that success can be.
~ Jennifer Egan
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
~ Ann Landers
Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.
~ Babur
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
~ Carl Sandburg