Quotes About Fleeting

though they are on the whole less violent, personal relations in modern urban communities also lack the intimacy and continuity of those in most traditional societies. Increasingly, they are casual, anonymous, and fleeting.

Rage is a candle, it will always burn out.

I am a war cry, bold and brash. I am kindling. I am ash, an evanescent glory.

It was very fast, that first time. They were on the couch, and then they were off the couch and it was all over. It was like jumping out the window and landing on the street. A quick ride, just like that.

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

Twee mensenvlokjes waren we, een kind en zijn moeder, zwevend in het wereldruim, zes volle jaren lang - ze waren in mijn ogen niet meer dan een paar dagen. We waren als een kinderlied, een rijm van daden en van wonderen - totdat heel zacht een zuchtje wind, een vederlichte bries, een wiekslag van een waaier, in de bladeren blies - en het vonnis velde: jij hiernaartoe, hij daarheen - en daarmee was het uit, in honderdduizend scherven.

Ben remembered that in Italy, he and Rachel had slipped down between rows of apple trees on the plain of the Po, deep into the cool and dark of orchards, and there they had kissed with the sadness of newlyweds who know that their kisses are too poignantly tender and that their good fortune is subject, like all things, to the crush of time, which remorselessly obliterates what is most desired and pervades all that is beautiful.

That fire you see can't last. Still, as it burns, it lights everything.

The blossoms fall just once each winter, yet in our memories, they fall every day.

You could reach for him, and sometimes you would grab hold of him. But sometimes all you would grab hold of was a reflection of a reflection in a revolving door.

And although those years will not be without trial, they will not lack joy as well. Fleeting as a firefly's burst in the night, but real all the same.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy

Beauty is fleeting. But the woman who fear God is blissful.

Yeah and it's over before you know it It all goes by so fast Yeah the bad nights take forever And the good nights don't ever seem to last

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.

Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year, The earth is hell when you leav'st to appear.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?