Quotes by category:Fleeting

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.

Juvenal

fleeting age drinking

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.

Leonardo DiCaprio

fleeting careers opportunity

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.

Louise Chandler Moulton

fleeting path life-is

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

Lucian

fleeting passing-away world

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.

M. F. K. Fisher

perfume fleeting good-food

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.

Marcus Aurelius

fleeting duration generations

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.

Marianne Wiggins

fleeting answers

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

Marian Keyes

fleeting despair together

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

Marina and the Diamonds

fleeting realising too-much

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

fleeting shadow life

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

Mark Hart

fleeting love-is people

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.

Martin Esslin

fleeting moments want

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.

Mark Twain

fleeting rays years

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.

Martine Franck

fleeting photography lying

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

Martine Franck

fleeting photograph lying

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability

Maynard James Keenan

fleeting eye heaven

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

Megan Hart

fleeting good-things grief

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.

Meher Baba

fleeting want worry

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.

Mick Jagger

fluttering fleeting gone

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

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

fleeting life-is way