Fleeting Quotes

347 quotes by 304 authors

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… — Diane Ackerman
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… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire
'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… — Andrea Bocelli
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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… — Andre Breton
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… — Kobe Bryant
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… — Julie Burchill
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… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
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… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
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… — Fred Allen
Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed. — Tori Amos
Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete without… — William Montagu-Pollock
Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings.… — Irene Nemirovsky
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 to… — Marcus Aurelius
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace
It's been a wild ride. I hope people can appreciate how special it is to see the people that ran well today; how special and… — Alan Webb
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… — Marcus Aurelius
By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a… — Matthieu Ricard
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.… — Sivananda

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