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Quotes About Fleeting

The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.
~ Matthew Arnold
What if nobody was still around who even faintly remembered your past life there? In that case, your entire existence upon the planet Earth held no more lasting meaning than a random pebble tossed into a pond: the few ripples were soon gone, leaving no mark. In a zero-sum world, your life might as well not have been lived.
~ Unknown
Attendre, c'était attendre l'occasion. Et l'occasion ne venait qu'à l'instant dérobé à l'attente, l'instant où il n'est plus question d'attendre.
~ Maurice Blanchot
Das schönste an einem Kuß ist jawohl, daß er nicht siebzig Jahre dauert. Es stelle sich jeder mal vor, er würde noch heute im Rachen dessen wühlen, den er als erstes küßte!
~ Unknown
De ta petite oreille j'oublie les longs secrets, ton sourire d'enfantelet, l'éphémère qu'on ose pas baiser, tes paupières aveuglées par mes lèvres, sources claires du destin, froides, chaudes comme la lune en juin.
~ Max Jacob
Oh, the days dwindle downTo a precious few…And these few precious daysI'll spend with you.
~ Maxwell Anderson
Hiljadu ne?ijih sre?nih ?asaka bi?e kao ovaj, ali ovaj nikada više. Hiljadu tu?ih ljubavi bi?e kao ova, ali ova nikad više.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Hiljadu ne?ijih sre?nih ?asaka bi?e kao ovaj, ali ovaj nikada više. Hiljadu tu?ih ljubavi bi?e kao ova, ali ova nikada više. Nikada: jedina kona?nost.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Are you aware that humanity is just a blip? Not even a blip. Just a fraction of a fraction of what the universe has been and will become? Talk about perspective. I figure I can't feel so entirely stupid about saying what I said because, first of all, it's true. And second of all, there will be no remnant of me or my stupidity. No fossil or geographical shift that can document, really, even the most important historical human beings, let alone my paltry admissions.
~ Unknown
I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments.
~ Meg Rosoff
The present could never be held, it did not allow it.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Sometimes you think people will be around forever, and then you lose them with no warning at all.
~ Meg Wolitzer
If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.
~ Megan Hart
Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger.
~ Megan Hart
Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The worst thing about the slivers of light is that you get to catch people's expressions for only a split second; then they disappear again, and in between you are forced to think about what it is that could make a person look so devastated.
~ Melina Marchetta
I tot el que quedaria, potser, seria només un senyal de peus molls damunt la terra per on hauria fugit corrent; d'aquells peus que s'enduien al damunt una cosa tendra i tèbia que m'hauria ajudat a viure i a dormir i a respirar...
~ Unknown
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
~ Mercedes McCambridge
Two years were all we had, love," she whispered, "and we squandered them.
~ Meredith Ann Pierce
Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.
~ Mervyn Peake
Hiljadu ne?ijih sre?nih ?asaka bi?e kao ovaj, ali ovaj nikada više. Hiljadu tu?ih ljubavi bi?e kao ova, ali ova nikada više. Nikada: jedina kona?nost. Prvi put znam šta je sre?a, osje?am je, vidim, mirišem. Cio svijet i cijela vasiona, nas troje. Nikog drugog osim nas nema.
~ Unknown
O que perdemos acontece depressa.
~ Mia Couto