Quotes About Fleeting

We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire.

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

Never give all the heart, for loveWill hardly seem worth thinking ofTo passionate women if it seemCertain, and they never dreamThat it fades out from kiss to kiss;For everything that's lovely isBut a brief, dreamy kind delight.

Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.

When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And someone called me by my name: It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossoms in her hair Who called me by my name and ran And faded through the brightening air. . . .

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.

Eternity for bubbles proves at last a senseless bargain.

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

The sleek, expensive girls I teach,Younger and pinker every year,Bloom gradually out of reach.

Our plesance here is all vain glory,This false world is but transitory.

As dust that drives, as straws that blow,Into the night go one and all.

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

Every day he thought would last forever, and the night forever, and the dawn drag eternally another long and empty day to light forever; yet they sped away, the day, the night...

it strikes me that the spirit of the Fourth, this year, was used up by September's end and fell like an early leaf.

tried to hold the feeling but it was warm as new bath water and just as hard to hold.

Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

But I know you, brother. And I know you got all the substance of a soap bubble.

Time has a savage way of gnawing away at life, leaving it transitory and incomplete, so that life in its fullness can never be enjoyed by any temporal being.

Petals floating by, Drift through my womans hand, As she remembers me.

I'm an instant star, just add water.