Quotes about Fleeting

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment. Votes: 5

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Votes: 4

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. Votes: 4

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. Votes: 4

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. Votes: 4

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. Votes: 4

Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change. Votes: 3

San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal Votes: 3

If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old. Votes: 3

Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change. Votes: 3

All glory is fleeting. Votes: 2

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever. Votes: 2

Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting. Votes: 2

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. Votes: 2

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it. Votes: 2

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. Votes: 2

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting. Votes: 2

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture. Votes: 2

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. Votes: 2

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life. Votes: 2

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me. Votes: 2

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. Votes: 2

My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies. Votes: 2

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Votes: 2

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal. Votes: 2

There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. Votes: 2

Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting. Votes: 2

Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one another and therefore cherish what we know from what we've heard, and mourn the loss, even though we're spared what the close-loved ones must endure - the ongoing pain of an empty place in the heart for the rest of life. Votes: 2

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst. Votes: 2

Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not. Votes: 2

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting. Votes: 0

... we each have our fleeting hour. Votes: 0

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever. Votes: 0

Art is long, and Time is fleeting. Votes: 0

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance. Votes: 0

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal Votes: 0

You told me love was fickle and fleeting. Votes: 0

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! Votes: 0

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed. Votes: 0

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view. Votes: 0

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting. Votes: 0

Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting. Votes: 0

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight. Votes: 0

Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal. Votes: 0

Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore. Votes: 0

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! Votes: 0

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes. Votes: 0

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses. Votes: 0

A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting... Votes: 0

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme. Votes: 0

The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache. Votes: 0

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect? Votes: 0

I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting. Votes: 0

Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more. Votes: 0

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream? Votes: 0

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received. Votes: 0

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment. Votes: 0

This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Votes: 0

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe. Votes: 0

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. Votes: 0

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be. Votes: 0

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting. Votes: 0

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. Votes: 0

Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned. Votes: 0

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future. Votes: 0

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. Votes: 0

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting. Votes: 0

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime. Votes: 0

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting. Votes: 0

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight? Votes: 0

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much. Votes: 0

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites. Votes: 0

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot. Votes: 0

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult. Votes: 0

Appreciation and Honor bestowed those, who were fleeting. Folks are ignorant, It's a human Psych ! Votes: 0

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting Votes: 0

No matter how fleeting Your smile is,Your smile is the very beginningOf your wisdom-light. Votes: 0

My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life. Votes: 0

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger. Votes: 0

In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection. Votes: 0

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair? Votes: 0

It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved. Votes: 0

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years. Votes: 0

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. Votes: 0

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting. Votes: 0

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness. Votes: 0

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. Votes: 0

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn. Votes: 0

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime. Votes: 0

Life is fleeting, yes, but also eternal; it will always find a way to begin again. Votes: 0

As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air Votes: 0

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present. Votes: 0

The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure. Votes: 0

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment. Votes: 0

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. Votes: 0

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience. Votes: 0

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife. Votes: 0

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim. Votes: 0

Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received. Votes: 0

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed. Votes: 0

In the land of Cheerios, dirty diapers, fleeting naps and interrupted sleep, other mothers are a lifeline. Votes: 0

Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart. Votes: 0

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that. Votes: 0

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie. Votes: 0

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised Votes: 0

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair Votes: 0

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average. Votes: 0

Heaven is fleeting, but Hell is an eternity. Hell becomes the more so the longer one lives it. Votes: 0

The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay? Votes: 0

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting. Votes: 0

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life. Votes: 0

Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all. Votes: 0

The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus. Votes: 0

[The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting. Votes: 0

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are. Votes: 0

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. Votes: 0

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life. Votes: 0

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now. Votes: 0

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. Votes: 0

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now! Votes: 0

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression. Votes: 0

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible. Votes: 0

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt Votes: 0

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting. Votes: 0

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. Votes: 0

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting. Votes: 0

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. Votes: 0

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal Votes: 0

You have no idea How much you do for mankind When you love God unconditionally Even for a fleeting moment. Votes: 0

Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. Votes: 0

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting Votes: 0

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is. Votes: 0

Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years! Votes: 0

There is no tomorrow..it is always today. Tomorrow is the fleeting and minute distance..between hope & once more..once again! Votes: 0

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important. Votes: 0

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence. Votes: 0

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here Votes: 0

The future will never bend to the fleeting hopes of the man."From "Lucifer's Ladder: God of the Fallen, Book One Votes: 0

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. Votes: 0

Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home. Votes: 0

As fleeting commitments, diets often fail. Thinking of dietary choices as part of who you are...can give them real staying power Votes: 0

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn. Votes: 0

What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal. Votes: 0

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game. Votes: 0

The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal. Votes: 0

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. Votes: 0

Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it. Votes: 0

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process. Votes: 0

Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy. Votes: 0

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre. Votes: 0

Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice. Votes: 0

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him. Votes: 0

Life is fleeting, Samuel said. A short leap, in the eye of the Eternal, from dust to dust. May you pass it together. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time. Votes: 0

nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment. Votes: 0

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment. Votes: 0

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it. Votes: 0

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise. Votes: 0

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise. Votes: 0

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Votes: 0

For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers. Votes: 0

The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house. Votes: 0

They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again. Votes: 0

Where religious values might be relative, intellectual values fleeting, moral values ambiguous, and aesthetic values dependent upon an observer, the existence of any thing is infinite. Votes: 0

If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare. Votes: 0

'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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The thoughts of othersWere light and fleeting,Of lovers' meetingOr luck or fame.Mine were of trouble,And mine were steady;So I was readyWhen trouble came. Votes: 0

Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don't. Not all people are going to like you and you have to come to [terms] with that. Votes: 0

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions. Votes: 0

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief. Votes: 0

Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. - Richard Von Krafft Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven. Votes: 0

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal superpower it is today. Votes: 0

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them. Votes: 0

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?' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting. Votes: 0

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air. Votes: 0

Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. Votes: 0

Put money in it's place. Money can buy you cars, houses, trinkets, fleeting sex, shallow companionship, cheap attention, and unfulfilled status. However, it can't buy you peace, love, or happiness. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Don't seek love externally, it's fleeting. Go beyond the ego and awaken thelove that already exists within; it will encompass everyone andeverything in your life; it will permeate your very being. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment. Votes: 0

For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Outbox and its inherent transient nature - is it a take on life itself ? momentary, independent, fleeting and somewhat meaningless dwelling for all creations on their way out - to sent items." Votes: 0

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they? Votes: 0

On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick. Votes: 0

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death. Votes: 0

However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience. Votes: 0

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look at it anthropologically, which is different from the way I'd write about art. Votes: 0

For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter. Votes: 0

Human beings are hard-wired to make relationships. We do so in many capacities, fleeting and long-lasting, between different sexes, both inside and outside of the confines of the almost universally accepted partnership we called marriage. Votes: 0