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Quotes About Fleeting

Life is just a dream on the way to death.
~ James O'Barr
Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.
~ James Patterson
Happiness is seeing Bear Bluff in your rearview mirror, but you better look damn quick.
~ James Patterson
quickly fading—going
~ James Patterson
Amazing how beauty can be so fleeting.
~ James Patterson
Any opportunity to be at the All-Star Game is a unique experience. It's an honor and a special time with the other players we don't ordinarily get to spend time with. It's a fun couple of days and something that goes by quickly in my experience. I try to enjoy it.
~ Buster Posey
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.
~ Carla Bruni
Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
~ Charles Bukowski
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
~ Fay Weldon
A woman is a sometime thing.
~ DuBose Heyward
You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.
~ Amy Dickinson
Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.
~ Frederick Lenz
What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.
~ Fay Weldon
Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
~ Ovid
Time stays, we go.
~ H. L. Mencken
Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
~ Kate Moss
Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.
~ Thomas Gray
A FLOWER THAT SMILES TODAY , TOMORROW DIES. ALL THAT WE WISH TO STAY, TEMPTS AND THEN FILES
~ Thomas Gray
just in case you're not around next year: happy birthday.
~ Thomas Ligotti
as British economist John Maynard Keynes reportedly stated, "we are all dead.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,But turn to ashes on the lips.
~ Thomas Moore
Believe me, if all those endearing young charmsWhich I gaze on so fondly today,Were to change by tomorrow and fleet in my arms,Like fairy gifts fading away,Thou would'st still be ador'd as this moment thou art,Let thy loveliness fade as it will,And around the dear ruin each wish of my heartWould entwine itself verdantly still.
~ Thomas Moore
So although only one of them had seen her face, and that just for a second, they let her disappear into the night, which would never release her.
~ Thomas Mullen