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Quotes About Fleeting

I just wanted one more day." More tears welled up in her eyes. "But it would never be enough. I could keep asking for one more day for the rest of my life.
~ Cindi Madsen, Cipher
You only live once, for a very short time. So make every second divine.
~ Mitch Lucker
Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
~ Socrates
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here
~ Maynard James Keenan
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
~ James Thurber, The 13 Clocks
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
~ Andrew Marvell
Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.
~ Perry Como
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
~ Mario Benedetti
What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.
~ Osamu Tezuka
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
~ Jeremy Taylor
I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time
~ George Strait
The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.
~ Dean Koontz
I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us
~ Monica Bellucci
Algernon Charles Swinburne
~ Today will die tomorrow.
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.
~ Thomas Campion
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Time just gets away from us.
~ Charles Portis
Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.
~ Jewel
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
~ Grace Paley
Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lost time can never be found again
~ Benjamin Franklin