Quotes About Fleeting

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

The renown that riches and beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Wij zijn slechts schimmen die korte tijd mogen dansen in het licht.

I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.

From pulp you are and to pulp you shall return.

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory

Bing Crosby and those fellows promised to love deeper than the ocean and higher than the stars for eternity. But who can sustain that kind of emotion for a month, or a year--much less forever? The song ends, the feeling fades, and they're onto the next pretty girl.

I discover her anew in each black cat I see ... And it is only when I try to touch her, to make her linger yet awhile, that she dies all over again. A snowflake in my hand...

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

Youth is like spring, an overpraised season

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

You are trapped in that bright moment where you learned your doom

The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can.

YANG FANA ADALAH WAKTU Yang fana adalah waktu. Kita abadi: memungut detik demi detik, merangkainya seperti bunga sampai pada suatu hari kita lupa untuk apa. "Tapi, yang fana adalah waktu, bukan?" tanyamu. Kita abadi. Perahu Kertas, Kumpulan Sajak, 1982

Reminded me of Anaktoria, who is gone. I would rather see her lovely step and the motion of light on her face than chariots of Lydians or ranks of footsoldiers in arms.

reminding me now of Anaktoria gone. I would rather see her lovely step and the radiant sparkle of her face than all the war chariots in Lydia

When you lie dead no one will remember or long for you later. You do not share the roses of Pieria. Unseen here and in the house of Hades, flown away, you will flitter among dim corpses.

I saw a star slide down the sky Blinding the north as it went by Too buring and too quick to hold Too lovely to be bought or sold Good only to make wishes on And then forever to be gone