Quotes About Fleeting

A single second is enough like steam in a retort to hiss, obedient to the alchemist and drops dead as a hunted dove.

Hux was a revolutionary, full of fire and fervor, but revolutionaries' seasons were fleeting

Nadie ve con nitidez lo que ya no está delante, aunque acabe de suceder o aún floten en la habitación el aroma o el descontento de quien apenas se ha despedido.

cualquiera muere en cualquier instante.

Yo he visto a mujeres no muy guapas ponerse guapísimas en esa situación de medio olvido, no les dura más que lo que dura el polvo, sea mal dicho y a las claras.

A fotografia quieta vai suplantando a cara real, com os seus gestos e o seu movimento, as feições congelam e passam a existir apenas as do instantâneo, que de tanto olhado substitui a pessoa e a apaga ou a desterra ou expulsa, por isso custa tanto recordar verdadeiramente os mortos que se afastam de nós.

And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

The story was clearly over, as in juggling when the ball you throw up finds the moment to come down, hesitates as if it might not, and then drops at the same speed of that celestial light. And life is no longer good but just what you happen to be holding.

Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless. They not only had a scent that was delicate and pleasing to humans, but also brought a fragrance from the realm of spirit. Using the word "enlightenment" in a wider sense than the conventionally accepted one, we could look upon flowers as the enlightenment of plants.

When you live through the mind-made self comprised of thought and emotion that is the ego, the basis for your identity is precarious because thought and emotion are by their very nature ephemeral, fleeting. So every ego is continuously struggling for survival

Uma coisa ele sabia que tinha perdido: a flor da vida. Mas pensava nela como uma coisa tão inantingível e improvável que lamentar-se seria como desesperar porque não se ganhou o primeiro prémio da lotaria. Havia cem milhões de bilhetes na sua lotaria e só um prémio. As chances foram todas definitivamente contra ele.

He looked out over the shirtless, muscled, tanned men and realised that right here, on this disco floor, there was such a concentration of fashion, slimming, money, bleaching, plastic surgery, psychotherapy – and all for naught. In a few years they'd all be old walruses, and in a few more, dead.

And it was the part of a wise man to forget inevitable calamities of human life in the enjoyment of the fleeting hour.

El amor podía llegar de repente, sin presentirlo, del sitio más inesperado, y quedarse un tiempo antes de alejarse hacia un lugar inalcanzable.

Please remind them that none of us have all the time we think we have in this troubled but still beautiful world.

Maybe we're all dying, one breath at a time.

hours hours and hours snap up our pleasures

Los años se restan, se diluyen, se esfuman, en vertiginoso retroceso del tiempo

Come il fiore già rigoglioso sullo stelo cade insieme col fiorellino ancora in boccio, al passar della falce che pareggia tutte l'erbe del prato.

Ritualism at its best is but the shortlived after-summer of the spiritual year! very fascinating it may be, but when it cometh, be sure winter is at the doors. "We all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

It's the shadow on every kiss and every dollar, that it might not be there tomorrow.

You always think there will be more time and then suddenly there isn't. You know how it is. You have to leave before the rains come, or it's too late.

It was over before it had even begun

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.