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Quotes About Fleeting

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.
~ Debbie Macomber
A vida é fugaz. A vida é preciosa. Temos de gozar cada momento. A sensualidade de respirar, de sentir, de querer.
~ Deborah Smith
Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn't last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back.
~ Dennis Lehane
Unaware, then, how short futures could be. How quick they could disappear, leave you with nothing but a long-ass present that held no surprises, no reason for hope, nothing but days that bled into one another with so little impact that another year was over and the calendar page in the kitchen was still stuck on March.
~ Dennis Lehane
We live in a world of disposable memory. Nothing's built to last, not even shame.
~ Dennis Lehane
It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a point it couldn't change back. One second.
~ Dennis Lehane
Time is rented, Joe thought, never owned.
~ Dennis Lehane
One could never hold happiness for very long, one had to snatch it whenever it came one's way.
~ Unknown
Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Hodie mihi cras tibi. Sic transit gloria mundi.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It's only a moment, but ye feel as though it will last forever. Strange, is it no? he said thoughtfully. Ye can almost see the light go as ye watch - and yet there's no time ye can look and say 'Now! Now it's night.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Man is like the grass that withers and is thrown into the fire; he is like the sparks that fly upward Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and his place will know him no more
~ Diana Gabaldon
My turn today—yours tomorrow. Thus passes the glory of the world.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Hodie mihi cras tibi—sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today—yours tomorrow. Thus passes the glory of the world.
~ Diana Gabaldon
There is not enough time for anything, ever.
~ Hilton Als
I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.
~ Douglas Carter Beane
We may think we have forever. . .no one does.
~ Inglath Cooper
The moment will come, as surely as we breathe, when opportunity will disappear. Then, and only then, will we realize what we have lost.
~ Inglath Cooper
Pur non avendo il crepuscolo ancora ceduto il passo alla notte, le scintille del falò luccicavano come fatui frammenti di stelle. Marie, la testa sulle ginocchia, pensava che anche la sua vita era come quei guizzi luminosi che si spegnevano in un batter d'occhio.
~ Unknown
Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.
~ Ishmael Beah
She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.
~ Isobelle Carmody
On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting
~ Unknown
For a moment he became smoke. How intimate, now, the cloudy sky.
~ Izumi Shikibu
our civilization is very young. None of us live long enough to cope with too much. About the time we begin to get our thoughts straightened out we begin to go senile. Or, in the mean time, we've been knocked over by a taxicab or died of the plague or something else. We don't live that long.
~ Unknown