in a world full of temporary things you are a perpetual feeling.
One clear moment, one of trance One missed step, one perfect dance One missed shot, one and only chance Life is all...but one fleeting glance.
For it is up to you and me to take solace in nostalgia's arms and our ability to create the everlasting from fleeting moments.
She tasted for the first time honey-sweet and dangerous happiness: dangerous because, as she before long began to learn, precarious.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.