Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Ephemeral should be the default.

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.

A trend is exactly that, and it's going to disappear.

Football's not forever.

This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

Life is just a moment of time and it pass by

Even nothing cannot last forever.

Words writ in waters.

I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.

All glory is fleeting.

We have to burn brightly. We can’t burn forever

And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon.