Quotes about Fleeting

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.

In short, know this: Human lives are brief and trivial. Yesterday a blob of semen; tomorrow embalming fluid, ash.

How quickly all things disappear, in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them;

Remember this: in no time at all both you and he will be dead, and shortly after that not even our names will remain.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth: quickly too utter oblivion drowns them. And I am talking of those who shone with some wonderful brilliance: the rest, once they have breathed their last, are immediately 'beyond sigh, beyond knowledge'. But what in any case is everlasting memory? Utter emptiness.

The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself.