Quotes About Fleeting

Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.

All good things pass away.

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually wracked with pain.

We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. We

with no more weight than a shadow.

like a little thorn that catches for a moment on a traveler's sleeve, only to pull out when the traveler walks on.

Lives had been spent here—people had loved one another and eaten and drunk and laughed and betrayed and been afraid of death—and not a single fragment of that remained. White stones, black shadows.

Life is just a short period of time in which we are alive.

But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never.

Time flies when you're being stupid.

But he would protect her with his heart for a little while. For a little while, before the insentient iron world and the Mammon of mechanised greed did them both in, her as well as him.

His life was a party which tragically came to an early end.

Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.

He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.

Whatever we shared is gone, because it was destined to be gone from the minute it started.

I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

It's like I've landed in the most perfect place in the universe. And then it blows up.

This is the nice note, I can't help thinking. But just like a sound, as soon as the note hits the air, it begins to fade.

One last song. One last turn. One last street. No matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you -Rhiannon

We were all actors, just as you are all actors now. But our audience wasn't as large as yours. And our performances, like those on a stage, were fleeting, uncaptured.