Fleeting Quotes

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.

'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.

What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

As we seek Christ, as we find Him, as we follow Him, we shall have the Christmas spirit, not for one fleeting day each year, but as a companion always.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.

I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to live with the added anus of indignity. The denial of one's inevitable demise is what causes most of the astringent blandness in the world. When your existence ends most certainly in death, there is no such thing as 'going too far'. There are no 'lines' you should fear to cross except the finish line. Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you could do.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don’t. Not all people are going to like you.

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.

What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

And I may stand where health, success, and power Await my coming, if, each fleeting hour I cling to love and patience; and abide With stainlessness; and never step aside From high integrity; so shall I see At last the land of immortality.