Fleeting Quotes

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

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

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

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

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

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

Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview--you'll be interviewing the next guy.

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?

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

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

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

Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

All glory is fleeting.

I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.

No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginning Of your wisdom-light.

Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a small price to pay for the upside that comes with this.

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.

The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.

We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!

Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.

As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

Purely sensual love is never true and lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion.

Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

Time is always fleeting and the lunar phases represent that visually for me. What people take away from that and how they apply it within their own lives, that's entirely up to them.

Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?