Quotes About Fleeting

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.

All things transient are but a parable.

Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen: Verweile doch! du bist so schön! Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen, Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!

I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

I don't know how many times we have to be reminded that life is extremely short.

But the tune ends too soon for us all

The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

Happiness has a very short half-life.

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Brief life is here our portion.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]

Life's but a day at most.

Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.