Quotes About Fleeting

There are some people who live to be thirty-five or forty, but because no one ever notices, their lives are candle-brief, invisible-small.

So that man, the first one, knew what we know now: our hour is short, eternity is long.

When life is over it is like a flicker of bright film, an instant on the screen, all of its prejudices and passions condensed and illumined for an instant on space, and before you could cry out, 'There was a happy day, there a bad one, there an evil face, there a good one,' the film burned to a cinder, the screen went dark.

The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful in memory: astonishing, in fact. She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it has to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

I thought his memory was like the other memories of the dead that accumulate in every man's life,—a vague impress on the brain of shadows that had fallen on it in their swift and final passage. . .

We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

Whatever has the nature to arise will also pass away.

I have some decades to spare. Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?

Meglátni és megszeretni egy pillanat m?ve volt.

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

Great handfuls of her life were being stolen from her and she would never be able to retrieve them.

Out of obscurity I came. To obscurity I can return.

Eso es malo. Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace.

He was used to seeing some part of him die every day. He watched the leaves falling from the Paradise tree. They all follow the same road. They all go away.

Well, ultimately nothing lasts. Everything is temporal, but some things last longer than others.

Grosse lacrime cominciarono a scorrermi sulla faccia e mi sforzai di convincermi che era solo una questione di nervi. E invece piangevo per la tristezza di dover constatare che il tempo sfugge a tutti noi e non si lascia alle spalle altro che immagini sempre più pallide.

Like the dew on the mountain,Like the foam on the river,Like the bubble on the fountain,Thou art gone, and forever!

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

God did not create the past, present and future, this moment is up to you to decide whether it will be fleeting or unforgettable."

Sadness and Happiness is a comparison between your fleeting momentary choices between past and future, modern and ancient."

Wasting knowledge on something fleeting is only for those who have a lot of wisdom."

This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.

And you have fixed my life — however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.

Wie lieb und luftig perlt die Blase Der Witwe Klicko in dem Glase.