Short-Lived Quotes

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.