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Quotes About Fleeting

He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live.
~ Joe Jackson
Being a model, you know, it's a short-lived vocation.
~ Andie MacDowell
A loverboy's shelf life is very limited.
~ R. Madhavan
The whole basketball world, it's a fantasy and it's short-lived.
~ DeMarcus Cousins
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
~ Douglas Coupland
It's not like I'm back for bath-time and bedtime for the children. You're back when they are asleep and you go out before they wake up. Really, that time when they are young goes all too quickly.
~ Helen Baxendale
Anything that can be proven cannot last.
~ Jonah Blank
When I was younger, I had a girlfriend. She was like a thousand-dollar perfume—unique, gorgeous, but then gone much too soon.
~ Jonathan Carroll
She, for her part, was accustomed to my leavings and didn't complain too much. But she still felt about me what she'd always felt, which was what I wouldn't really feel about her until after she was gone. I hate it when Daylight Savings Time starts while you're here, she told me while we were driving to the airport, because it means I have an hour less with you.
~ Jonathan Franzen
It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we only have one life
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're al trapped.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I offer you the memory of a yellow rose seen at sunset, years before you were born.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Aquí también esa desconocida Y ansiosa y breve cosa que es la vida. (Here too the never understood, Anxious, and brief affair that is life.)
~ Jorge Luís Borges
La muerte (o su alusión) hace preciosos y patéticos a los hombres. Estos conmueven por su condición de fantasmas; cada acto que ejecutan puede ser último; no hay rostro que no esté por desdibujarse como el rostro de un sueño. Todo entre los mortales tiene el valor de lo irrecuperable y de lo azaroso.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Moartea (ori pomenirea ei) îi face pe oameni preÈ›ioÈ™i È™i patetici. ?i condiÈ›ia lor de fantome te impresioneaz?; orice fapt? pe care o s?vârÈ™esc ar putea s? fie ultima. Nu exist? chip care s? nu se risipeasc? precum chipurile din vis. Pentru muritori, totul se afl? sub pecetea irecuperabilului È™i întâmpl?torului.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose.
~ A.E. Housman
And yet all things, even strange and wondrous ones, lose their luster with time. They always do.
~ Aaron Starmer
What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?
~ Aberjhani