The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we…

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if…

— Amos Oz

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Our reality may be fabled, but surely will be fleeting, because when the storyteller looks away, the story collapses. In the end, we vanish…

— Dennis Vickers

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

— Horace

“But always too soon, right after a fleeting moment of hope, the floor opens up and I sink to the bottom again.”

— Natalie Taylor

I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a…

— Mark O'Donnell

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

— Ann Landers

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.

— Andreï Makine

Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and call it…

— Chris Fabry

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

— Nicholas Sparks

“In this fleeting life, there is nothing stronger than a visual idea or moment stopped in time forever. And nothing does this better than…

— Richard Olsenius

“It was stolen. As most beautiful things eventually are.”

— Doug Dorst

The whole world is fleeting. Life is fleeting. So grab a pen, save it for later.

— Anonymous

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

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Anonymous