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Quotes About Fleeting

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
~ Horace
We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.
~ Isaac Marion
Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.
~ Isaac McLellan
And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
~ Jack Kerouac
Fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them
~ James M. Barrie
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
We're here for such a short period of time.
~ Jeff Bridges
What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?
~ John Green
There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.
~ John Green
When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
~ Jose Saramago
One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.
~ Samuel Beckett
How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
~ Dr. Seuss
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty face from day to day.
~ William Shakespeare
The bird of time has but a little way To flutter - and the bird is on the wing.
~ Omar Khayyam
Whatever time is giving us, it will take everything back!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Time is not money because it never returns.
~ Amit Abraham
Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.
~ Martina Boone
This world isn't a fair place, because we never know how much time we've really got.
~ Zoe Cruz, Beastia
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."]
~ Hector Berlioz
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Life is so fleeting. I am so busy enjoying it that I have no time to get angry.
~ Debasish Mridha
TimeYou were the oneI wanted mostto stay.But time could notbe kept at bay.The more it goes, the more it's gone—the more it takes away.
~ Lang Leav, Lullabies