Quotes About Fleeting

Muziek dient ertoe ons eraan te herinneren dat we maar heel kort een lichaam hebben.

Even pain was preferable to numbness, at least for a while, and hope, once indulged, was only as delicious as it was short-lived.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye...

He didn't make plans himself any more. There was now and it was followed by another now. If you were lucky.

How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot.

He noticed that Ursula's ox-eye daisies, wrapped in damp newspaper, were drooping, almost dead. Nothing could be kept, he thought, everything ran through one's fingers like sand or water. Or time. Perhaps nothing should be kept.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.

When Theo returned along St. Andrews Street the girl with the custard-yellow hair was no longer there and he worried that she might never be there again. Because that was how it happened: one moment you were there, laughing, talking, breathing, and the next you were gone. Forever. And there wasn't even a shape left in the world where you'd been, neither the trace of a smile nor the whisper of a word. Just nothing

Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.

Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away. Where, for instance, were his brothers now? He did not know; he could not say. Madam

Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water.

The best things, he always used to say, are put together of a night and vanish with the morning. What people call the floating world, Ono, was a world Gisaburo knew how to value.

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

I've come to appreciate cooking over the years. It's an art, I'm convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It's not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly

Le había hecho tan feliz que empezó a temer que no fuese a durar.

Los buenos tiempos se van para no volver nunca más.

Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

Live as though you will lose your power of love and attraction at any moment.

It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.

Power is a delicate thing. The most powerful storms on earth intensify rapidly, but dissipate just as fast if not faster.

I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.

Todas las cosas se derrumban y dejan de ser, y no hay nada que pase más rápido que la vida de un hombre feliz.

The child was slender as fleeting hope.