Candace Bushnell Quotes

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.

A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and pinned down, it's worthless.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

The fact that childhood ends is exactly what makes it so precious - and why you should cherish it while it lasts.

I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.

Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end... Charlie: When do the good things start?

Nothing is forever in the Theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot and then its gone.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

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.

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose... That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments are temporary. Nothing lasts forever.

Nothing gold can stay.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

Life is just a moment of time and it pass by

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

Today is not forever.

Even nothing cannot last forever.