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Quotes About Fleeting

Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.
~ Diane Keaton
All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.
~ Paulo Coelho
They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.
~ Phil Plait
Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
~ Og Mandino
Time is long but life is short.
~ Stevie Wonder
I thought about my beautiful dreams and wondered if they would drift away just like those lovely soap bubbles.
~ Ji-li Jiang
There are certain days that are forever locked in our memories. They represent special times, places, and people that we capture in the scrapbook of our minds. Just a fleeting thought of these memories can bring us back to that special time and place as well as the emotion we felt when we were there.
~ Jim Stovall
Happiness is often elusive and fleeting. There are three elements that, when combined, always result in happiness. Like a three-legged stool, they work in tandem. Any two of the three
~ Jim Stovall
Every day is a gift because it can either be the first day of the rest of our life or be our last day here on earth.
~ Jim Stovall
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again
~ Jimi Hendrix
Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye
~ Jimi Hendrix
two a penny within months of
~ Jo Beverley
Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room. ("Hair")
~ Joan Aiken
She lived among us for a while And brought joy where she went. We thought she was a gift of God But learned she was but lent.
~ Joan W. Blos
But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.
~ Joanna Baillie
El amor es una epidemia que se acaba con el tiempo.
~ Joaquín Sabina
Le di mis noches y mi pan, mi angustia, mi risa, a cambio de sus besos y su prisa; con ella descubrí que hay amores eternos que duran lo que dura un corto invierno.
~ Joaquín Sabina
And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Ponder the capriciousness of human nature, which allows momentary appetites and fleeting attitudes to set the courses for entire lives and future responsibilities.
~ Ann Gray
love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.
~ Ann Hood
D?vains v?rietis… K? zivs… Kas vienm?r aizlok?s un izsl?d no rok?m…
~ Anna Gavalda
As lover you reach forward to a point in time called "then" when you will bite into the long-desired apple. Meanwhile you are aware that as soon as "then" supervenes upon "now," the bittersweet moment, which is your desire, will be gone. You cannot want that, and yet you do.
~ Anne Carson
Water is something you cannot hold. Like men. I have tried, Father, brother, lover, true friends, hungry ghosts and God, one by one all took themselves out of my hands.
~ Anne Carson
My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.
~ Anne Giardini