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Quotes About Fleeting

Melancholy is to know the beauty of life, and to know it must end.
~ Alex Miller
Will you be my friend?" Bertie asked. And then added: "Just for Paris. You don't have to be my friend forever – just for Paris.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Our possessing of our world is a temporary matter: we stamp our ownership upon our surroundings, give familiar names to the land about us, erect statues of ourselves, but all of this is swept away, so quickly, so easily. We think the world is ours for ever, but we are little more than squatters.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
all the good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an instant.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
there is always a very precise moment for words like that to be uttered; then it passes and it is too late. Just as the moment for words like sorry or I love you is a brief one, fleeting and irreplaceable; a moment of liminality, perhaps.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
what is renoun?more false than hope by dreams engendered.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Heart lives in the future, so what if gloom pervades the present? All is fleeting, all will go; What is gone will then be pleasant.
~ Alexander Pushkin
My goddesses! You vanished faces! Oh, hearken to my woeful call: Have other maidens gained your places, Yet not replaced you after all? (12)
~ Alexander Pushkin
I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I don't need again to learn the bitter lesson that everything I love is a flame between two fingers, no act undone, no word unsaid.
~ Donna Hilbert
Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.
~ Donny Osmond
quoting Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat: "Good friends beware! the only life we knows Flies from us like an arrow from the bow, the Caravan of life is moving by, Quick! to your places in the passing show.
~ Dorothy Gilman
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
~ Dorothy Parker
Live like a star, that always and mesmerize others by its beauty but doesn't anyone by its illuminance and becomes a meteoroid itself...
~ Dr. Urooj Umer
But get it while youre here boy, cause all that hype dont feel the same next year boy.
~ Drake
I am always looking for meaningful one night stands.
~ Dudley Moore
I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands
~ Dudley Moore
We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.
~ Diana Trilling
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
The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.
~ Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
~ Haruki Murakami
You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
~ George Clooney
Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.
~ Eric Idle