Life Fleeting Quotes

Life is long. But it goes fast.

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.

Life ends so fast, so take your chance, and make it last.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.

I've had a lot of people pass away in my life. I guess it's all a matter of how you deal with your mortality - and recognizing that you are mortal. I'm trying to see what a gift life is and how quickly it can be extinguished, without any warning.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.