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Quotes About Fleeting

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
~ Andy Warhol
Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.
~ Alfred Armand Montapert
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
~ Duane Michals
I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.
~ Tim Heidecker
Storage problems make neon signs the most ephemeral of commercial arts.
~ Virginia Postrel
Sometimes the best dreams came in the final seconds of sleep.
~ Tim Lebbon
That's all any writing could ever be. Words on paper that burn intensely when read and then diminish over time.
~ Tim Seeley
You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.
~ Tim Tharp
Nothing lasts. You think it's going to. You think 'Here's something I can hold on to', but it always slips away.
~ Tim Tharp
Nothing lasts," she says, and there's a little crack in her voice. "You think it's going to. You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.
~ Tim Tharp
everything changes. Snow becomes water. It's beautiful because it changes. Things are fleeting. It felt so beautiful to be part of this weird world in that moment. I felt part of the world again, rather than removed from it. It
~ Timothy Ferriss
I remember wishing the moment would hold forever; that we could be fixed there, laughing and irredescent... Then I got panicky because I knew it would pass; that it was passing already.
~ Tina Howe
No blessing lasts forever
~ Titus Maccius Plautus
There's also something about ageing and the concomitant awareness of the fleeting nature of existence that tends to make you less worried about being ridiculous, and less judgemental about the quality of ridiculousness in others.
~ Tom Cox
Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.
~ Mike Nichols
Bubbles are always new; you just can't find an old bubble.
~ Tom Noddy
It felt like I blinked and the Olympics were over.
~ Eddy Alvarez
One minute I'm inside this magical glitter bubble, then it's straight back to mum-life. Literally. That is my life!
~ Emma Weymouth
Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one another and therefore cherish what we know from what we've heard, and mourn the loss, even though we're spared what the close-loved ones must endure - the ongoing pain of an empty place in the heart for the rest of life.
~ Mimi Kennedy
In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.
~ Burnie Burns
A human being is only breath and shadow.
~ Sophocles
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way: But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say;
~ Oscar Wilde
It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
~ Oscar Wilde
La única diferencia que hay entre un capricho y una pasión eterna es que el capricho dura un poco más de tiempo.
~ Oscar Wilde