Fleeting Quotes

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

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.

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

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

I'm not playing for lack of options. But this is such a fleeting thing. When I'm done, I'm never, ever going to be able to come back to it. I know Vancouver is my last go.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

... we each have our fleeting hour.

And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.

The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting

To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

In the land of Cheerios, dirty diapers, fleeting naps and interrupted sleep, other mothers are a lifeline.

Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.