“Blooms in its day and may not last forever.”
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
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“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
Sundial of the Seasons, Lippincott, 1964, p. 49

“Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not!”
Source: Work Without Hope (1825), l. 9.
Context: Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.

Originally in Latin; translated by Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907)
Quoted in Sky and Telescope, March 2011, p. 33

Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison.
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Context: You're forever falling for men on their last nights on furlough. That's about the limit of your commitments, one night, a day, a month. You prefer lovers to husbands, hotels to homes. You'd rather grieve than live.

“May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.”
Source: Wolves of the Calla