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Quotes About Fleeting

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.
~ Lord Byron
Love is like a faucet, you can turn it off an' on, But when you think you've got it, it's done turned off and gone
~ Dylan Thomas
The true love is very momentary but what a moment.
~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life
~ Richard Lewis
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting
~ Moliere
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
~ Dorothy Parker
The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
~ William Hazlitt
Travel beyond the world you know as often as you can, visit the people you care about when given the oppurtunity and ALWAYS tell the people you love, you love them. Tomorrow is never promised...
~ Unknown
Life is an intangible gift from GOD. We can neither see it, feel it, or bargain with it. Life is an unsubstantial flimsy thing. It is here today and gone tomorrow.
~ Unknown
and time becomes a forgotten detail.
~ Mary E. Pearson
She never promised me tomorrows, and now I knew why.
~ Mary E. Pearson
He looked gloomily out of the misty window, opaque with the breath of himself and an elderly Indian officer, who was his only companion, and watched the fleeting landscape, which had a certain phantom-like appearance in its shroud of snow. He wrapped himself in the vast folds of his railway rug, with a peevish shiver, and felt inclined to quarrel with the destiny which compelled him to travel by an early train upon a pitiless winter's day.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Just lately I have been happier than I ever had the right to expect, and as one goes around the world one sees that happiness is hard to come by and seldom lasts for long.
~ Mary Renault
In this world of ours, We eat only to cast out, Sleep only to wake, And what comes after all that Is simply to die at last.
~ Matsuo Bash?
In the cicada's cry There's no sign that can foretell How soon it must die.
~ Matsuo Bash?
This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying the same, standing in the same spot they were in over a decade ago, when they first met. Surely the reality is that connections between people aren't permanent, but fleeting and random, like a solar eclipse or clouds meeting in the sky. They exist in a constantly moving universe full of constantly moving objects.
~ Matt Haig
And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live.
~ Matt Haig
Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We're a late-night piss in the toilet, that's all we are.
~ Matt Haig
We'd have been a meteor shower. Over before we started.' 'Meteor showers are fucking beautiful.
~ Matt Haig
Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.
~ Matt Haig
Bands don't last. We'd have been a meteor shower. Over before we started. - Meteor showers are fucking beautiful.
~ Matt Haig
Bands don't last. We'd have been a meteor shower. Over before we started. "Meteor showers are fucking beautiful.
~ Matt Haig
That it will never come again, Is what makes life so sweet. —EMILY DICKINSON
~ Matt Haig
And you never know when a meal will be your last . . . None of us do.
~ Unknown