Quotes About Fleeting

The candle burned the moth: But soon it will vanish in its own fat.

Three Things Three things cannot be retrieved: The arrow once sped from the bow The word spoken in haste The missed opportunity. (Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet)

Some people are there for all our life and others are there for just a moment.

luxury is fleeting, but enjoy in it while lasts.

All lovely things will have an ending,All lovely things will fade and die,And youth, that's now so bravely spending,Will beg a penny by and by.

Here today, not there tomorrow, gone leaving no incriminating evidence of my unpopular halfbaked world view. That's a good girl.

Happiness is a fleeting thing, little mistress. You cannot hold it in your hand, you cannot smell it or taste it—you can only take it when it comes along.

Roses die, candles go out, tears dry. The memory of the page outlasts them all.

As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she'd left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then you didn't realize it was perfume, you only wondered what had made you think of her just then.

I relished those moments, knowing they would end.

It's impossible to hold on to anything really. Everything slips away in due time.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Contemporary books do not keep. The quality in them which makes for their success is the first to go; they turn over night. – Cyril Connolly

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

How long will you be away?" "Three days," he said cheerfully. "You'll scarcely have time to miss me before I'm back." "I wouldn't miss you no matter how long you were gone.

The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes every day, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.

I'm insane for you, Amy. 'Like' lasted all of ten minutes.

My roses grew wild and died as I busied myself with feeding and diapering, nursery rhymes and sickbeds.......the best times of my life, the times that passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild

The best times of my life, the times that passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild.

He's just a flash in the pants.

Where all have gone, and all must go To be the nothing that I was 'Ere born to life and living woe!

Time! On whose arbitrary wing The varying hours must flag or fly, Whose tardy winter, fleeting spring, But drag or drive us on to die

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.