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Quotes About Fleeting

We are always dying – I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or block their ears; they are all dying.
~ Hilary Mantel
The brightest stars burn out the fastest
~ Unknown
La ocasión en fugaz la experiencia insegura y el juicio difícil
~ Unknown
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.
~ Hippocrates
Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile. Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.
~ Hippocrates
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
~ Hippocrates
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
~ Hodding Carter
That's what mortal means," I say with a sigh that I don't have to fake. "We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.
~ Holly Black
I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath.
~ Holly Black
We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.
~ Holly Black
They streak past me in to the hall in a blast of gossamer.
~ Holly Black
It'll rot,' I say. 'And so will we.
~ Holly Black
Como estrellas fugases. Hermosos, brillantes, pero efímeros.
~ Holly Black
You are mortal. You will not last long.' ... 'That's what mortal means,' I say with a sigh that I don't have to fake. 'We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.
~ Holly Black
Men flourish only for a moment.
~ Homer
Words like winter snowflakes.
~ Homer
Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
~ Homer
Il existe dans tous les sentiments humains une fleur primitive, engendrée par un noble enthousiasme qui va toujours faiblissant jusqu'à ce que le bonheur ne soit plus qu'un souvenir et la gloire un mensonge
~ Honore de Balzac
And a moment that ought to have lasted for ever Has come and gone before I knew.
~ Li Shang-yin
La vida parece más bella y efímera que nunca, pues se puede perder en un abrir y cerrar de ojos.
~ Lian Hearn
Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.
~ Lian Hearn
What happened never mattered all that much because he was always about to leave,
~ Liane Moriarty
once stood, and Erika's memories were dissolving, disappearing, being washed away like a chalk drawing on pavement in the rain, and all she felt right now was cold and wet and foolish. 57
~ Liane Moriarty
If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.
~ Linda Barnes