Quotes About Fleeting

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

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

We're only immortal for a limited time.

All time is unreedemable.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

Time burns but leaves no ashes.

Time passes irrevocably.

Time is the best killer.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

Time is always fleeting and the lunar phases represent that visually for me. What people take away from that and how they apply it within their own lives, that's entirely up to them.

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

What came is gone forever every time

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.