You have no idea How much you do for mankind When you love…

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

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

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Anonymous

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

— Doug Dorst

“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

...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

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

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

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

— Ann Landers

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

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

— Natalie Taylor

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

— Horace

“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

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

It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written…

— James Elroy Flecker