Quotes About Fleeting

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

Life is fragile and absurd.

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or today.

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

Life is too short for chess.

Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

Everything in life is elusive.

Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.

Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.