Quotes about Fleeting

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

The greatest wisdom consists in enjoying the present and making this enjoyment the goal of life, because the present is all that is real and everything else merely imaginary. But you could just as well call this mode of life the greatest folly: for that which in a moment ceases to exist, which vanishes as completely as a dream, cannot be worth any serious effort.

Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.

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.

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

You want everything so much and when you get it it's over and you don't give a damn.

She smiled and her face was heartbreaking.

No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now.

Life is a breath, a passing breeze; a blade of grass, green and vibrant for a time, only to wither, die, and disappear. Soon you will be dead.