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Quotes About Fleeting

Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.
~ Robert E. Murray
For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
~ Sophocles
Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.
~ Friedrich Schiller
To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
~ Jack Kerouac
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Life really is very brief.
~ Matthew Modine
It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff
When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.
~ Lauren DeStefano, Sever
Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.
~ Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
~ Pierre Corneille
A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.
~ Marcel Proust
Life is too short because we die.
~ Christopher Locke
Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.
~ Jim Butcher
This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know.
~ Louise Chandler Moulton
The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.
~ Mason Cooley
All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Gratitude's got a short half-life, Clarice.
~ Thomas Harris
Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.
~ William Browne