Quotes About Fleeting

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures … What remains is a fleeting paradise that lives on for all time, having no need of doctrines.

o a gente de paso.

Is this night a failure because it will end in an hour?

Only in brief flashes does it come to us that we may never see someone again.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid and intoxicating for an hour, or perhaps a day, but then they subside.

They sought each other, missed each other, at cocktail parties, in train terminals, at flower shops, their fin de siecle Nokias gaining symbolic power with each scene.

Our dwelling is but a wandering, and our abiding is but a fleeting, and in a word our home is nowhere.

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

Unnumbered suppliants crowd Preferment's gate Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great; Delusive Fortune hears th' incessant call, They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall.

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

And life is thorny; and youth is vain

It seems there's nothing so good or pure it can't be taken without a moment's notice. And then in the end, it all gets taken anyway.

It seems there's nothing so good or pure it cant be taken without a moment's notice. And then in the end, it all gets taken anyway.

Love is just a word we use to describe what boils down to a selfish and temporary state of happiness.

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther

I knew that it wouldn't last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.

This life was fleeting, and I was still searching for the way I wanted to spend it that would make me happy, full, okay again. I didn't know what it was, not yet. But something told me I wouldn't find it here.

I am watching parts of me evaporate like sidewalk water. This wet grey, this nighttime dew, gone before morning.

Everything that happens is the last time it happens. We see things only as their own fatal brightness and there is nothing after that brightness.

Going up, Herzong found a bouquet of violets, dropped from the hand of a woman. Perhaps a bride. Little perfume remained in them, but they made him remember... These violets smelled to him like female tears. He gave them a burial in the trash ca, hoping they had not dropped from a disappointed hand.

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