Quotes About Fleeting

Aaron stared down at his pad of paper, unsure. He said, "So what would be the best word for you? Vagrant?" Reacher said, "Itinerant. Distributed. Transient. Episodic.

An image comes to Russell: we drift through the world like dandelion puffs on the wind, we spread our seed and disappear, and the world doesn't care. The world doesn't even notice. The world is not about us. Finally

Money is like grass. It withers. [... ] but our deeds last forever.

How long is forever? Sometimes just one second

it's only a dream

What mattered it to her just then that the rushes had begun to fade and to lose all their scent and beauty, from the very moment that she picked them? Even real scented rushes, you know, last only a very little while-- and these, being dream-rushes, melted away almost like snow, as they lay in heaps at her feet-- but Alice hardly noticed this, there were so many other curious things to think about.

For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.

Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week's time.

Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you. So she lived in the moment, as if her life were one long party that never had to stop as long as she kept the good times going.

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

A life out of balance is a person that doesn't believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.

Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.

A great catch is like watching girls go by. The last one you see is always the prettiest.

Rostros todavía lozanos y sonrosados (porque la sensibilidad era un proceso tan rápido que no tenía tiempo de marchitar las mejillas, y sólo afectaba al corazón y el cerebro) se volvían a su paso

Somos para los dioses como moscas en manos de chiquillos caprichosos; nos matan como en un juego.

Love in a night shall live and die, Love in a day shall wing and fly; Love in the Spring shall last an hour, Easily fade a spring-tide flower.

La vejez, esa primera muerte de las cortesanas.

As horas que crescem no lado direito dos relógios devem ser esticadas com ajuda da preguiça, pois são elas as que mais seguramente levam para a morte.

Quando si spense la seconda lampadina, entrambi si girarono a guardarla, per un attimo. Sembrava quando si aspettano le stelle cadenti, nelle notti d'estate.

Es ist ein sonderbarer Schmerz. ... Nach etwas zu vergehen, das man nie erleben wird.

You wake, you die.