Quotes About Fleeting

The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white

Any day could be your last day of existence?

No mark survives this place: you too will yieldto unmemory.

But even then I knew it wasn't me that saved her life. It wasn't about me. I was just there while she was maybe going to die and maybe not, and then she just didn't.

Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.

Everyone dies young.

Death of destiny: dust

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.

we're just paper on a shelf, in the end

Death twitches my ear. "Live " he says "I am coming".

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

All the dreams I'd allowed myself to imagine were nothing but pages swept away by the wind.

I had a beautiful relationship with Auba. Too bad it only lasted a year. For me, a guy coming from Evreux, meeting Aubameyang meant a lot.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Acting is important to me, but so is the rest of my life, and what I still keep in mind is that the pressure of being successful lasts so short a time.

This may be our 15 minutes of fame, so we're going to enjoy it while it lasts.