Quotes About Fleeting

Patience often surrenders to time, and dreams go unfulfilled - act as if time is fleeting, as it is.

He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.

Last night they had said and done all those things, and now they were like strangers in a bus queue. The mistake she had made was to fall asleep and break the spell.

Who's he seeing now then?" "No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long.

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in it's slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

Siente una especie de dolor en el pecho, intenso pero placentero. Es como si hubiera una herida, pero una herida leve, una marca en la piel que quieres acariciar, reconocer, disfrutarla por todo lo que significa para ti. Ahora que aún está, porque es posible que, pronto, desaparezca.

In fact, it's entirely plausible that the factors affecting people's preferences are microscopic and fleeting.

Nothing lasts forever, not even the horrors in this life.

My eyes have always been advertisements for an early death.

life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

Anyhow, Molly died, in the way that all really good things die, fast and brutal and for no apparent reason.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

Now and then, so fleeting I could almost believe it my own fancy, each of them had looked at Stoker with something akin to jealousy. I was not surprised. It was the same expression frequently aimed in my direction, usually by women with too many children and too much time spent embroidering tea cloths. To make one's own money, to direct one's own destiny, these were heady gifts indeed.

rose in one great flap of those enormous wings and lifted itself above my head, out of reach and beyond the horizon before I realized what was happening. It was like watching a miracle of creation, and I felt no loss at its passing away from me but only joy that I had been, for however fleeting a time, connected with it.

Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains.

Sparks are warm while they last.

Life will not last forever. Enjoy its beauty and joy while you are here.

She was only a dew drop that sparkled a short while under the brilliant rays of heaven's sunlight.

Touch a day you will never see.

Transient guests are we.

The sharp knife of a short life, wellI've had, just enough time.

Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious.

Life is magnificent and vivacious, but it is also fugacious.