Quotes About Fleeting

Things are only white for a bit.' Emilie

She walked on and on till she melted out of the picture - like - like a shadow jumping over a candle ...

Flowers wither and lose their color, much as I reflect in vain time lost to the long rain.- Kanna

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

I have to hurry up and write them down before I forget. I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

time isn't something you can spread out like butter or jam, and death isn't going to hang around and wait for you to finish whatever you happen to be doing before it zaps you

Catching it destroys it, and I felt like I was disappearing, too. Stuff like this can drive you crazy.

My views are the fleeting observations of a 'travelling scholar'9 rushing through life in the greatest haste. People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.

She watched him recede into the past as he stood...each successive moment of him passing before her eyes and being lost forever.

I learned that love is for the most part absent and, when it appears, is usually fitful, fleeting, and finally unsatisfactory. I learned that the communities men build are based on the oppression of the many by the few, and I did not understand

The light of the fire dying in the water like a dream being forgotten.

Our pleasures, however refined or easily acquired, are by their very nature fleeting. They begin to subside the instant the arise, only to be replaced by fresh desires or feelings of discomfort.

You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

Alas, my life is spent in frivolous trifles, which I even forget myself.

no se ama verdaderamente más que una vez…

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

A lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years.

Once upon a time I was young and beautiful. But that is the fairy tale, because it all passes in the blink of an eye.

Lust was a story I knew. There were many women I took to bed for the night. I yearned for them in the moment, but in the morning, any lover I'd had was already claimed by the past, even if she was still calling my name.