Fleeting Quotes

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

Everything in the media is fleeting. Don't get the wrong idea. Fame is when you're still the hot topic next week or even the week after.

The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

A beautiful blossom is a fleeting thing It stays for a moment and then takes wing: With special rays we catch it ere flight So all may enjoy the beautiful sight.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting. You really have to have a legitimate talent to back it up.

I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.

You told me love was fickle and fleeting.

When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more.

Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.

This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal.

Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.

San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal

As fleeting commitments, diets often fail. Thinking of dietary choices as part of who you are...can give them real staying power

I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

Thus heavenly hope is all serene,But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,As false and fleeting as 't is fair.

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It's just that that feels discriminatory to me, "the ideal woman." The concept of ideal is fleeting. It's like "perfect." There's no such thing.