Quotes About Fleeting

If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.

We're only immortal for a limited time.

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.

nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

She had fallen in love with a stranger in the course of a weekend, and she would never fall in love again.

she'd learned long time ago that nothing wonderful lasted forever

He always had the sense that they were on borrowed time.

You never know how much time you have left.

I know the names of possible signings get fans excited, but it's a very fleeting kind of excitement.

When I was starting out, I saw it as something that was definitely going to end. Every time I came to New York for fashion week or to interview someone, I was so sad going back home because I thought, 'These things don't get to last.' That's sort of the narrative of young success.

Over a million people. So fast. Gone, just like that.

Cats have short lives. It's how they punish you for getting attached to them. She couldn't last forever.

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

as with the normal life, one finds that every passing day represents more and more relentlessly subtracted from less and less. In other words, the process both etiolates you and moves you nearer toward death. How could it be otherwise?

He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

in the blink of an eye my beauty becomes but a feast for worms, and I, a forgotten sigh in a sea of nothingness.