Quotes About Fleeting

But memories and griefs are fleeting things.

Le désir fleurit, la possession flétrit toutes choses

The need for dreams, the desire to be made happy by the woman one has dreamed of, means that it can take no time at all to settle all one's chances of happiness on someone who a few days earlier was no more than a fortuitous, unknown, commonplace apparition on the boards of a theater.

the memory of a certain image is only regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

The dead last so short a time … Alas, in the coffin they crumble into dust, Less quickly than in our hearts!

love which, ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come)?

enough to make the Avenue different. The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

Monelle found me in the plain where I was wandering and took me by the hand. "Do not be surprised," she said. "It is I, and it is not I; "You shall find me again, and you shall lose me; "Once more shall I come among you; for few men have seen me, and none has understood me; "And you shall forget me, and you shall recognize me, and you shall forget me.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us - how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region in which it all takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

Life is a raindrop

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

He will make any woman happy a little while and then unhappy a long while.

Schopenhauer once put it, we insist on living our lives "with great interest and much solicitude as long as possible, just as we blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although with the perfect certainty that it will burst.

You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?

very small and it will disappear. This

She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

There are no friends; only moments of friendship.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that's gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.