Quotes about Fleeting
Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.
- Thomas a Kempis
Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.
- Thomas a Kempis
We are here today and gone tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- George Bernard Shaw
He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
- John of the Cross
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
- Washington Irving
Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment
- Victor Hugo
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;
- Victor Hugo
Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.
- Milan Kundera
History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.
- Milan Kundera
Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all.
- Milan Kundera