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Quotes About Fleeting

I am a temporary amusement.
~ Jerry Della Femina
Losing a parent makes you realize how temporary everything is - you're looking through someone's whole life in a drawer, and they're very simply gone.
~ Richard Jenkins
Life is temporary. We die one day. Live it up!
~ Pete Holmes
I have realised that we are running after things that are so temporary and fleeting - be it fame or money or anything like that.
~ Radhika Madan
Crowd work has this feeling of being very temporary and of the moment, and I think that's why it sometimes gets a bad rap or a stigma.
~ Moshe Kasher
We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.
~ Shane Douglas
Time just gets away from you so quickly. And there's these moments that will never come around again. And there's something so terrifying, but also so beautiful about that.
~ Luke Hemmings
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind A shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind The gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
~ Robert Nathan
Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.
~ Robert Townsend
Appearance implies disappearance also: whatever appears must also disappear.
~ Robert Wolfe
impermanence.
~ Robert Wright
El olvido era la muerte postrera y definitiva de las cosas y la gente.
~ Roberto Ampuero
Demasiado bonito para que durara, ya saben, los espíritus singulares no soportan tanto amor, tanta perfección encontrada por casualidad
~ Roberto Bolano
Qué lástima que pase el tiempo ¿verdad?, qué lástima que nos muramos y que nos hagamos viejos y que las cosas buenas se vayan alejando de nosotros al galope.
~ Roberto Bolano
then he sat on his bed and for a fraction of a second the shadows retreated and he had a fleeting glimpse of reality. He felt dizzy and he closed his eyes. Without knowing it he fell asleep.
~ Roberto Bolano
Nothing lasts, the purely loving gestures of children tumble into the void.
~ Roberto Bolano
I'd love her until the end of time, he thought. An hour later he'd already forgotten the matter completely.
~ Roberto Bolano
brevedad de la vida, en lo insondable que resulta el destino de los hombres, en la futilidad de los empeños mundanos.
~ Roberto Bolano
Así pasa la gloria del mundo, me dijo Quim desde el otro extremo de la mesa.
~ Roberto Bolano
I'm mercurial, sometimes I want greatness, sometimes just its shadow.
~ Roberto Bolano
But all fires, of wood or grief, burn down to ashes eventually.
~ Robin Hobb
For a very brief period I was happy, and, an even rarer gift, I knew I was happy.
~ Robin Hobb
I suddenly wished to go back, to have again each separate day to spend. Time. I was trapped in it, fenced into a tiny piece of now that was the only time I could influence. All the soons and tomorrows I might plan were ghost things that might be snatched from me at any moment. Intentions were nothing. Now was all I had.
~ Robin Hobb
Et vif comme la pensée, il m'échappa, dévalant la pente comme l'ombre d'un nuage quand le vent souffle
~ Robin Hobb