Quotes About Fleeting

Gud i himlen, kjærligheten er et flygtig stof!

Every moment of life mattered. Even the perfect snowflake that alighted on his palm and melted in seconds.

Things that burned bright burned short.

Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!

The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

There's no doubt that he's heading straight for tragedy. It will be beautiful, of course, but should he throw his whole life away as a sacrificial offering to such a fleeting beauty--like a bird in flight glimpsed from a window?

There's no doubt that he'll be heading straight for tragedy. It will be beautiful, of course, but should he throw his whole life away as a sacrificial offering to such a fleeting beauty—like a bird in flight glimpsed from a window?

Il mondo di certo finirà in rovina, però prima che ciò avvenga per alcuni attimi si materializzeranno splendide movenze che in un altrettanto breve intervallo scompariranno.

Even as he spoke, the boy appeared to have forgotten the subject, as if it was a balloon he had abandoned to the sky.

Los labios y los ojos de Sonoko resplandecían. Su belleza me deprimía y despertaba en mi una sensación de impotencia. Esa misma sensación es la causa de que Sonoko me pareciera aún más efímera.

Come svanisce velocemente il ricordo delle azioni, a paragone con il ricordo dei sentimenti!»

Success"—if at all—is only temporary, and idealism is always flawed and fleeting. Hence the abiding need to engage in politics.

What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded; it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly.

TIME The Immediate Magical Event

Life is eternal and, at the same time, ephemeral.