Quotes About Fleeting

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each time he consciously recalls her, that forms a new memory, a new imprint to be stacked on top of the previous one. He fears that too much handling will make it crumble.

we are merely renting these bodies of ours. You came into this world on an in breath. You will exit on an out breath. Hence, we say that someone has . . . ? 'Expired'!

Perhaps we are hurtling our bodies towards the thing that will obliterate us, begging for love from the speeding passage of time...

With children, everything's already happening and then over with. It happens while you're trying to keep up and gone by the time you arrive at a view of things.

That's how he'd thought of most people—appearing in your life like foundlings on the doorstep, only to be swept away later as if by flood.

Mina estaba sentada, hermosa y pálida como la primera nieve que a veces, en otoño, besa las últimas flores y que pronto se fundirá en un agua amarga.

the general run of politicians will always eschew those schemes for the future which are really difficult to put into practice; and they will practise this avoidance so that they may not lose the immediate favour of the mob. The importance and the success of such politicians belong exclusively to the present and will be of no consequence for the future. But that does not worry small-minded people; they are quite content with momentary results.

It made me realize how fleeting life truly is, how quickly it can all end. And when the end comes fer me, I want to have something beautiful and happy to remember.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.

Memory is constantly on our lips because it no longer exists.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

The happier the moment the shorter.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

that those supports may be shaken, and collapse, for the popularity of evil men is as fickle as the men themselves.

Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.

The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Better a life like a falling star, brief and bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

Happier are all men than the beings of faerie – or the gods, for that matter,' he said. 'Better a life like a falling star, brief and bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.