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Quotes About Fleeting

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.
~ Huangbo Xiyun
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.
~ John Piper
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
~ Stendhal
There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.
~ Pete Maravich
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass
~ Ezra Pound
Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?
~ Stephen King
I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.
~ George Carlin
Life is once. Forever.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.
~ Jim Butcher
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.
~ Charles Yu
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
~ Georg Hermes
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
~ Shania Twain
This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.
~ John Clare
Life is just a dream on the way to death.
~ James O'Barr
There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. None of us knows how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifty years -I like living as if I only have two days
~ Jennifer Niven
the words are there one minute, and the next they're gone.
~ Jennifer Niven
We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.
~ Jennifer Niven
Today, I saw a little girl in a little pink dress who couldn't be older than two, and I thought of how nothing could be more fleeting, more precious, more joyous than her not knowing how, running beneath the cherry trees, she was all lightness, all reverie.
~ Jenny Boully
Don't let it happen to you, Lara Jean. Don't get too serious to where things can't go back. Be in love with Peter if you want, but be careful with your heart. Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.
~ Jenny Han
It was over before I even had a chance.
~ Jenny Han
And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.
~ Jenny Han
For a minute there it was really good. It was really, really good. Wasn't it good? Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for too long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.
~ Jenny Han
Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.
~ Jenny Han