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Quotes About Fleeting

I did not realize what a gift I had been given until it was too late, forever too late. Must life always be that way?
~ Unknown
There is a strange feeling of longing that I have always had, always a desire to be someplace better than where I am. But the world I want to enter is always disappearing before I get there.
~ Unknown
Time itself made all things rare.
~ Lionel Shriver
Time itself makes all things rare.
~ Lionel Shriver
You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.
~ Lionel Shriver
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
~ Lisa Alther
It was funny how tangled lives could become, how so many lives could brush against you only to disappear with the dawn.
~ Lisa Jackson
The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Because one day of something wonderful is better than a forever of nothing special.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.
~ Doris Lessing
Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.
~ Donny Osmond
Bu akÅŸam, birdenbire kendimi biraz zavall? hissettim. Sonra geçti.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I said to myself: Perhaps there is nothing in the world I cling to as much as this feeling of adventure; but it comes when it pleases; it is gone so quickly and how empty I am once it has left. Does it, ironically, pay me these short visits in order to show me that I have wasted my life?
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Ah, Young One," he said, holding up the box. "I have brought you a riddle: What is the essence of the moment but as fleeting as the wind?" "All that lives, Master," I said. "Plus, whatever is in the box." He beamed at me and opened the lid. "Snatch the cannoli, Grasshopper," he said, and I did. Over
~ Jeff Lindsay
and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
We're like everyone else, I guess. We promise that something is forever, when it is really only as long as it takes for us to tire of it. When she walked away, and out of the door, it was like she was leaving forever.
~ Jennifer Lynch
We're like everyone else, I guess. We promise that something is forever, when it is really only as long as it takes for us to tire of it. When
~ Jennifer Lynch
Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.
~ Jenny Holzer
Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked. To
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Did he realized nothing would last, that sooner or later every last speck and smidgeon of matter would disapper?
~ Jerry Spinelli
No, no, we are definitely writ on water. Or cognac -- if we've any luck at all.
~ Jess Walter
everything is temporary if you give it enough time...
~ Jewel Kilcher
Y, así, esos ocho meses quedan atrás, no tardan en difuminarse, en olvidarse, como esa prenda de ropa que nos ponemos para una celebración especial o que pertenece ya a otra temporada y que con el tiempo acaba resultando engorrosa, prescindible.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri