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Quotes About Fleeting

Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it's fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you're still there.
~ Tatiana Maslany
the stories were becoming just that: stories. The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Observe, in short, how transient and trivial is all mortal life; yesterday a drop of semen, tomorrow a handful of spice and ashes.
~ Nicholson Baker
We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?
~ Nick Hornby
Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
remember that nothing, good or ill, stays forever.
~ Nora Roberts
You were worried about me. It was a brief moment of insanity. It's passed.
~ Nora Roberts
Art is long, and time is fleeting.
~ Nora Roberts
How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Look up at the stars and you're gone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now? she says.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Lovely, forgettable faces, born to flirt and fuck and die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How could you ever bring yourself to love so deeply if you truly knew how brief a lifetime could be?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is your life and its ending one minute at a time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Life is short. Death is forever.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
All of these stars, the most powerful actors in film, they were all gone in an instant.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What Marla loves, she says, is all the things that people love intensely and then dump an hour or a day after. The way a Christmas tree is the center of attention, then, after Christmas you see those dead Christmas trees with the tinsel still on them, dumped alongside the highway.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Essa é sua vida, ela vai acabando a cada minuto.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How could you ever bring yourself to love so deeply if you truly knew how brief a lifetime can be?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You do not buy Taco Bell, you rent Taco Bell and then return it to its ecosystem with a couple of flushes.
~ Chuck Wendig
The brief arc of our days, O Sestius, prevents us from launching prolonged hopes.
~ Cicero
I'm afraid you're going to disappear one day, Kazahaya. Just like your name…just like the wind.
~ CLAMP