Quotes About Fleeting

Alle unsere endgültigen Entschlüsse werden in einem sehr vergänglichen Gemütszustand gefaßt.

El recordar una determinada imagen no es sino echar de menos un determinado instante, y las casas, los caminos, los paseos, desgraciadamente son tan fugitivos como los años

The places we have known do not belong only to the world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. They were only a thin slice, held between the contiguous impressions that composed our life at that time; the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years

She wept over the vanity of her desires, which had so ardently flown to the blossoming flesh that now had already withered forever.

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.

From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star.

Janey. A problem. He liked her, but only for a couple of hours at a time.

out the window onto the freeway, where it was run over several hundred times in the next hour or so, before

She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.

The half-life between story of the century and not even the story of the day is quicker than you would ever guess.

Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time.

The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.

Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch! And some men eased themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

Oh, but strawberries will never taste so good again and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

When you see it, its leaving, when you need it, its gone, when you have no use for it at all, its right infront of you.

Nothing is interminable - All is but transient, for even set stone can be broken.

People don't realize the window of opportunity closes faster than it opens.

This is your life and its ending one minute at a time.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Life is short and so is money

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.