fleeting time
Hours slipping away
Fleeting time emphasizes the swift passage of moments, the sense that time moves too quickly to grasp or hold.
The phrase often carries a note of melancholy or urgency: In our fleeting time together, we made memories that lasted.
It appears in reflections on mortality, lost opportunities, or the preciousness of the present moment.
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- momentaryLasting very briefly
- passingMoving by or temporary
- blink of an eyeExtremely brief duration
brief · vanishing · hourglass · sand · ticking · ticking clock · clock · sunset · golden hour · fading · blink · instant · swift · slipping · stolen moments · memories · days gone by · youth
- time conceptsclock, calendar, hour, minute, second
- time sayingscarpe diem, seize the day, better late than never, tempus fugit, haste makes waste
- seize todaycarpe diem, seize the day, seize the moment, live for today, present moment
duration and permanence
fleeting timeeternity
Boundless temporal existence
permanence · timelessness · perpetuity · infinity · forever
fleeting, fleet, fleetingly, fleetingness, time, times, timed, timing, timer