Quotes About Fleeting

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

I sang in the shower, lay awake dreaming. I wore my old dresses, my brightly colored cardigans and my satin pumps, and let myself be enclosed in a bubble of happiness, conscious that bubbles only ever existed for so long before they popped anyway.

She was beautiful. As always she looked like she'd meant to head for somewhere else but at the last minute she'd decided to stop by you, as a favor, you understand.

By then we all believed that happiness should be treasured if good fortune happened to blow it briefly your way.

People were rushing by, all hurrying to die

daug sapn? jie ateina ir v?l pradingsta išblunka iš atminties

Tis very little worth the while for us to pursue after honor in this world, where the greatest honor is but a bubble and will soon vanish away, and death will level all. Some have more stately houses than others, and some are in higher office than others, and some are richer than others and have higher seats in the meeting-house than others; but all graves are upon a level.

The present state is short and transitory; but our state in the other world, is everlasting.

Every emotion (such as happiness or disgust) includes an affective reaction, but most of our affective reactions are too fleeting to be called emotions (for example, the subtle feelings you get just from reading the words happiness and disgust).

Did the sudden dark remind you that all of the things we expect to be there for us, to protect us, shelter us, provide for us, are fleeting and finite?

each second that peeled itself off the clock and dropped onto that dirty bathroom floor.

For all of us, normal is just temporary, and we are only visiting—for a fleeting moment—the center of the bell curve.

The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.

I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, acrid and fake. Love should be like a movie trailer. Even if the film's a stinker, you get the best laughs and the biggest explosions in the space of two minutes.

mi viene in mente che i miei sentimenti - i sentimenti di tutti - sono inutili, andranno persi, lacrime nella pioggia.

El pasado, decía Proust, no sólo es fugaz, es que no se mueve de sitio. Con París pasa lo mismo, jamás ha salido de viaje. Y encima es interminable, no se acaba nunca.

war is long, life is short.

passion is like sand. It disappears no matter how tightly one tries to hold on to it.

She told me the darkness was greedy and light was fleeting." "What does it mean?

I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again — nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.