Quotes about Fleeting
Everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds.
- Anne Lamott
The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
- Thomas a Kempis
Our time for this life is nothing other than a race to death.
- St. Augustine
That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.
- Samuel Beckett
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!
- Samuel Johnson
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
- Victor Hugo
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
- Victor Hugo
It's a town you come to for a short time.
- Ernest Hemingway
Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon
- Aristotle
The timeless instant passed.
- Arthur C. Clarke
So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
- Jesse Jackson
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.
- John Piper