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title: "4 Fleeting Things Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“Memories were such fleeting things, yet the human brain stored them like food for the winter of old age.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-bylin/memories-were-such-fleeting-things-yet-the-human-brain-stored-them/)

[Victoria Bylin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-bylin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87f/victoria-bylin-84381_human-brain_memories-were-such-fleeting-things-yet-t_462248.jpg)

> [The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian/the-world-is-fleeting-all-things-pass-away-or-is-it-we-that-pass-and/)

[Lucian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd1/lucian-23536_all-things_the-world-is-fleeting-all-things-pass-aw_730432.png)

> [“These memories of happiness are fleeting things, reflections in a stream, glimpsed all broken for a second and then swept away in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geraldine-brooks/these-memories-of-happiness-are-fleeting-things-reflections-in-a/)

[Geraldine Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geraldine-brooks/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/371/geraldine-brooks-1324_grief_these-memories-of-happiness-are-fleeting_930154.png)

> [The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meher-baba/the-satisfaction-derived-from-the-fleeting-things-of-life-is-not/)

[Meher Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meher-baba/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/275/meher-baba-2986_all-kinds_the-satisfaction-derived-from-the-fleeti_986030.png)

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