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Quotes About Fleeting

It's not that I can't find art beautiful. I just don't know what to do, standing there in the gallery. I don't know what to think about. Once I've seen it, I've seen it; that takes about two seconds. I am interested and then immediately bored, immediately.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
~ Jeff Bezos
There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
~ John Lydon
All glory is fleeting. And, If you do not love what you do, don't do it.
~ Ronnie Screwvala
Good things only can last so long.
~ Paul Pierce
All will be forgotten, everything you perceived, thought, dreamed, hoped, remembered . . . all the past all the crawling fucking coughing chestpounding nose-picking and deathward attempts to make real some desperate desire, like standing upright for a minute in the sun. The sun that will die.
~ Franz Wright
One life is an absurdly small allowance.
~ Freya Stark
Las delicias de este mundo ya he gozado, Los días de mi juventud hace tanto, ¡tanto!, que se desvanecieron, Abril y Mayo y Julio están lejanos, ¡Ya nada soy, ya nada me complace!
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
Os homens de profunda tristeza denunciam-se quando são felizes: têm um modo de pegar na felicidade como se quisessem esmagá-la e sufocá-la, por ciúme - ah, sabem bem de mais que lhes foge!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune monent.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.
~ Tara Stiles
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
~ Gene Wolfe
I like when things happen very quickly, just flash in and flash out. It keeps things interesting.
~ Hilary Hahn
I did have a beautiful life. It ended early, that's all.
~ Rose Tremain
Our time consumes like smoke, and posts away; Nor can we treasure up a month or day: The sand within the transitory glass Doth haste, and so our silent minutes pass.
~ Rowland Watkyns
Lo, all our pomp of yesterdayIs one with Nineveh and Tyre!
~ Rudyard Kipling
As I pass through the lengthy struggle of life in this fleeting world, I cannot help but long for the midnight moon I once saw."- Kanna
~ Rumiko Takahashi
Enough for me that you are beautiful: Beauty possessed diminishes. Better a dream of love Than love's dream broken; Better a look exchanged Than love's word spoken. Enough for me that you walk past, A firefly flashing in the dark.
~ Ruskin Bond
Some people become an integral part of our lives; others are ships that pass in the night. Short stories, in fact. My
~ Ruskin Bond
She did not know it then, that some of the moving force in our life are meant to touch us briefly and go there way.
~ Ruskin Bond
To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.
~ Russell Kirk
Friendship is dead:They were friends who go with the wind,And the wind was blowing at my door.
~ Rutebeuf
Some of us come here as shooting stars, to shine brightly for only the briefest moment, and others of us come and overstay our welcome, living to a ripe old age and forgetting our own names.
~ Ruth Behar
Time had no meaning, save that it was running out.
~ Ruth Gruber