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Quotes About Fleeting

Maybe that's the way of things, too. That the more beautiful a thing is, the shorter it seems to last. People no less than flowers.
~ Charles E. Gannon
Life is short and full of blisters.
~ African-American saying
Life winks as it passes me by and is gone before my own blink of eye.
~ Terri Guillemets
How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness every where!
~ William Shakespeare
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind — a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.
~ Woody Allen
By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out.
~ Author Unknown
Easy come, Easy go.
~ Grace Murray Hopper
Il suono della fisarmonica arrivava fin laggiù; il motivo saltellante e voluttuoso richiamava alla danza, ma a volte si mutava il lamento, come stanco di gioia, come rimpiangendo il piacere che passa e gemendo per l'inutilità di tutte le cose: allora anche l'occhio melanconico delle giumente pareva pieno di una dolcezza nostalgica.
~ Grazia Deledda
Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.
~ Gregory Galloway
Memories are hunting horns Whose sound dies on the wind.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
I know love," Says the littlest one. "Love is like a flower." "Why is love a flower? Little one tell me." "Love is a flower For the sweetness it gives Before it dies away.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
No man ever truly possesses a woman, anyhow," said Gidas moodily. "He has her body for a time if he's lucky, but only the most fleeting glimpse into her soul." Gidas was a poet, or wanted to be.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, at
~ James Gleick
The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying.
~ James Gleick
Maybe ye don't know it, Mr. Herriot, but this is the best time of your life.' 'Do you think so?' 'Aye, there's no doubt about it. When your children are young and growin' up around ye—that's when it's best. It's the same for everybody, only a lot o' folk don't know it and a lot find out when it's too late. It doesn't last long, you know.
~ James Herriot
Mysteries exists in every moment. For some, a tiny moment is their entire lifetime!
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
You can still die when the sun is shining.
~ James Joyce
Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.
~ James Joyce
Only a fadograph of a yestern scene.
~ James Joyce
Life is many days. This will end.
~ James Joyce
Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.
~ James Joyce
Cos'è uno spettro? [...] Uno che è svanito nell'impalpabilità per morte, per assenza, per cambiamento di usi.
~ James Joyce
The false dawn, with its illusions and mist-wrapped softness, can be as inadequate and fleeting as Morpheus' gifts. CHAPTER 2 The days became warmer the first week in April, and on some mornings I went out on the salt at dawn and seined
~ James Lee Burke
The false dawn, with its illusions and mist-wrapped softness, can be as inadequate and fleeting as Morpheus' gifts.
~ James Lee Burke