Quotes About Fleeting

Thus heavenly hope is all serene,But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,As false and fleeting as 't is fair.

There is no tomorrow..it is always today. Tomorrow is the fleeting and minute distance..between hope & once more..once again!

You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!

She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

He's just a flash in the pants.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

To be immortal and then die

S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

You just don't get it. The point I'm trying to make—the point you're deliberately ignoring—is that tomorrow it might all go away. You have to do what you want and take what you want now.

Human moments are brief, value them when they happen.

Every breath you take is a step forward toward death. (Hazrat Ali-As)

Ze glimlachte naar hem. "Op momenten zoals deze krijg je maar één kans.

The empress of the perfumer's palette, jasmine must be harvested before the rising sun to retain the full force of its delicate fragrance. Fragile and fleeting, jasmine is a fair nymph of a flower with a potent perfume. A world without jasmine? Simply unimaginable. -DB

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

The trouble with bubbles is, they burst.

From the moment we are born, we begin to die.