Fleeting Splendor Quotes

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

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.

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

But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.