Fleeting Quotes

347 Fleeting quotes by 294 unique authors

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! — Horace
There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment… — Pete Maravich
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. — William Cowper
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
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what… — Hippocrates
Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. — Robin Williams
All glory is fleeting. — George S. Patton
Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by… — Unknown Author
Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment. — Elizabeth David
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience. — Wes Fesler
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. — Robert Breault
Whatever influence you have, it's only for a small amount of time. When Sir Frank (Packer) sold the Daily and Sunday Telegraph to Rupert Murdoch… — Ita Buttrose
Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night.… — Robin Williams
One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely.… — Carlos Castaneda
Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger
When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting… — Ming-Dao Deng
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with… — James Elroy Flecker
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. — Tennessee Williams
If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and… — Minot Judson Savage
In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and… — Pope John Paul II

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