Quotes About Fleeting

But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting.

The thought occurred to me as I lay there. You wait and wait for happiness, and when finally you can't bear it any longer, you rush out of the house, only to hear later that a marvelous happiness arrived the following day at the home you had abandoned, and now it was too late. Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late. Happiness...

What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.

A vida é um sopro.

Every thing-become is mortal. Not only peoples, languages, races and Culture are transient.

I always thought that whatever I had was temporary.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

Writing lives forever, while you may not.

I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now." I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon.

If I've learned one thing, it's that relationships can be fleeting. There's no guarantee of the time one might have with another...There might not be a second chance if you let something special slip through your fingers. I don't want to live with regrets.

Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think

Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and shaded them. She liked the way the word sounded in her head. I am an ephemeral. It made her feel like something passing and precious.

nothing lasts forever, not even time it self

Dispomos de um excesso de tempo que nos acaba por faltar a partir do momento em que já passou.

Nothing human has ever mattered to this world. Nothing human has ever excited the interest of rivers or flowers. Everything fades away in the specks of this blurred haze that the fire of the sun has added to the heat of the light.

Épicure a écrit : Chacun sort de la vie comme s'il était à peine né.

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.

Les vies n'ont pas de sens en fait, elles vont et viennent souvent comme des tsunamis, avec le même fracas, et elles drainent des débris qui croupissent dans ta tête comme autant de reliques, qui te semblent des trésors et ne tiennent pas la position.

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

Why do people whose existence you are unaware of, whom you meet once and will never see again, come to play, behind the scenes, an important role in your life?

Une petite fille rentre de la plage, au crépuscule, avec sa mère. Elle pleure pour rien, parce qu'elle aurait voulu continuer de jouer. Elle s'eloigne. Elle a déjà tourné le coin de rue, et nos vies ne sont-elles pas aussi rapides à se dissiper dans le soir que ce chagrin d'enfant?

Strange people. The kind that leave the merest blur behind them, soon vanished. Hutte and I often used to talk about these traceless beings. They spring up out of nothing one fine day and return there, having sparkled a little. Beauty queens. Gigolos. Butterflies. Most of them, even when alive, had no more substance than steam which will never condense.

we had no real qualities, except the one that youth gives to everyone for a very brief time, like a big promise that will never be kept.