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Quotes About Fleeting

You end up trying to buy happiness. I bought a Lamborghini. Wow! I was happy for a week. After that, I didn't even use the car. Who drives around Loughton in a Lamborghini?
~ Kevin-Prince Boateng
You don't want to do a show and then it's done and say, 'Wow, I didn't do anything.' Please, you don't understand how fast it goes. Before you know it, you're filming your last episode. People remember you a month, and then you're done.
~ Jonathan Cheban
I think sometimes we get wrapped up in awards... ultimately, it's just a moment in time, and it passes.
~ Mike Colter
When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn't any reclaiming it or revising it.
~ Gregory Maguire
The moon passed overhead in its path from the Vinkus, and she felt its accusatory spotlight, and moved back from the tall windows.
~ Gregory Maguire
J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyère L'automne est morte souviens-t'en Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre Odeur du temps brin de bruyère Et souviens-toi que je t'attends
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
A veces recordamos durante siglos cierto momento que ya no volverá, que ha pasado, que está en la nada para siempre, y por el que pagaríamos en prenda todo nuestro futuro
~ Gustave Flaubert
It seemed as if she went through life touching it scarcely at all
~ Gustave Flaubert
Une vie! Quelques jours et puis plus rien! On naît, on grandit, on est heureux, on attend, puis on meurt.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Je voudrais arrêter le temps, arrêter l'heure. Mais elle va, elle va, elle passe, elle me prend de seconde en seconde un peu de moi pour le néant de demain. Et je ne revivrai jamais.
~ Guy de Maupassant
GeçmiÅŸ beni çekiyor, bugün ise korkutuyor; çünkü gelecek ölü. Olan bitene özlem duyuyor, yaÅŸananlar için aÄŸl?yorum. Zaman?, saati durdurmak istiyorum; ancak zaman geçiyor, ak?p gidiyor, yar?n?n boÅŸluÄŸunu doldurmak için her saniye benden çal?yor ve ben bir kez daha hayata gelmeyeceÄŸim.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Comme c'est misérable et trompeur, la vie !.. Il n'y a rien qui dure.
~ Guy De Mauspassant
la satisfacción de un momento es la ruina del siguiente.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
mejor era vislumbrar un instante el cielo y perecer, que vivir sin haber contemplado jamás el día.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
So stay, belov'd Content! nor let my soul In fretful passion seek a farther goal. Apollo, chasing Daphne, gain'd his prize, But lo! she turn'd to wood before his eyes! Our earthly prizes, though as holy sought, Prove just as fleeting, and decay to naught. Enduring bliss a man may only find In virtuous living, and contented mind.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air? Then all we are left with are stories.
~ Hanan Al-Shaykh
A sign read: YOUR STAY HERE IS TOUCH AND GO—TOUCH AND YOU GO.
~ Harlan Coben
The name of the group was Survivor," Win said. "Ironic name when you think of how quickly they vanished, no?
~ Harlan Coben
Good things are rare. They are to be cherished because they always leave us too soon.
~ Harlan Coben
I went back to Windy's place. We took it slow until we took it fast. It wasn't full-on bliss, but it was awfully sweet. It was around 3:00 A.M. when Windy walked me to the door. Not sure what to say, I stupidly went with "Uh, thank you." "Uh, you're welcome?" We kissed lightly on the lips. It wasn't something that would last, we both knew that, but it was a small, quick delight, and sometimes in this world, there was nothing wrong with that. I
~ Harlan Coben
You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.
~ Taylor Lautner
I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.
~ Henry James
Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.
~ Bokar Rinpoche
Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.
~ John Knowles