Quotes About Fleeting

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

Days will come when the magic of the senses shall fade. And when this enchantment has fled, then it first becomes evident whether we are truly worthy of love.

Hope is sometimes fleeting, but always precious. Sad to say, when the battle began, most of my companions had no hope at all.

A drunkard's words are gone by the next dawn.

It stunned me. I had never said it before. I knew that I would never say it again, not really; that you only get one shot at in a lifetime. I got mine out of nowhere on a misty autumn evening, under a street lamp shining yellow streaks on the wet pavement, with Rosie's strong pliable fingers woven through mine.

a tiny gemstone, a tiny spark of color slipping between your fingers and through the cracks and gone. A heart the size of a fleck of glitter and vibrating like a hummingbird, seeded with a billion things that would never happen now.

We are all dust All dying All losing All forgetting We are all leaving all the time

more success tattooing a soap bubble

Vår stutte tid blir her.

You must appreciate that time is always against you. It is never kind or encouraging. It gnaws away invisibly at all good things. Therefore, if you have any desire to accomplish anything, even the simplest task, do it swiftly and with great purpose, or time will drag it away from you.

all I had were words, which are as light and flimsy as air.

You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

Dust too is drawn on wings to light.

I've got a short memory span.

I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to moment in our lives, and in our frenzy, as something that's as out there as alien life.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

Because in a split second, it's gone.

When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.

Life is fleeting, " Samuel said. "A short leap, in the eye of the Eternal, from dust to dust. May you pass it together.

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why Should wise men grieve to know that they must die? The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.