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Quotes About Fleeting

Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
~ Paulo Coelho
We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires
~ Paulo Coelho
Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of second. -Eleven Minutes
~ Paulo Coelho
Seize every oppurtunity that life offers you because when oppotunities go, it will take a long time to come back.
~ Paulo Coelho
Now, as they were all looking at the new moth, she, too, went to look at it. It was of a creamy yellow color, like the yellow of the lemon called Buddha's Hand, and it had long black antennae. These quivered as it felt itself impaled. The wide wings fluttered and dark spots upon them showed green and gold for a moment. Then the moth was still. How quickly they die! Ch'iuming said suddenly.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Por qué tuve que conocerte?, se preguntó la loca mirándolo desaparecer. Pudimos no habernos cruzado nunca.
~ Unknown
IMPERMANENCE means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually see each and every little movement of mind—changing, changing, changing.
~ Pema Chodron
The second reminder is impermanence. Life is very brief. Even if we live to be a hundred, it's very brief.
~ Pema Chodron
The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.
~ Ralph Richardson
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
O delicious kiss, Why thou so sudden art gone? Lost in the moment thou art won?
~ John Wolcot
You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's dignified about dying? It's never dignified. And in obscurity? Offensive. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it.
~ Dave Eggers
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it.
~ Dave Eggers
But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them
~ Dave Eggers
We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils." ? A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
~ Dave Eggers
flake hit the sidewalk and then melted almost immediately. Lancaster
~ David Baldacci
It goes by so fast. But when your kids are little and the days seem like they are forty-eight hours long, you just can't see that. And everyone with grown kids tells you they grow up in the blink of an eye and will be out of college and on with their lives before you know it. And young parents listen but never really believe it.' She paused. 'Until it happens to them.
~ David Baldacci
The executive intern never brushed her hair after a shower. She just gave her head two or three shakes and let it fall gloriously where it might and turned, slightly, to give Ellen Bactrian the full effect: 'Who?' She had ten weeks left to live.
~ David Foster Wallace
The best ink for Vanity Fair use would be one that faded utterly in a couple of days, and left the paper clean and blank, so that you might write on it to somebody else.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray