Fleeting Quotes

347 Fleeting quotes by 294 unique authors

There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting. — Ann Brashares
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the… — Richard Dawkins
For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers. — Alexandra Potter
When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed… — Naomi Wolf
How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now. — James Clavell
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in… — Sharon Salzberg
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew)… — Zygmunt Bauman
And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she… — Nicholas Sparks
You told me love was fickle and fleeting. — Erin Morgenstern
On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting — Kobayashi Issa
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
You may think you don't want to throw your life away for mere fleeting euphoria. But, once you get a taste, it doesn't feel so… — Jerry Stahl
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a… — Woody Allen
Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger. — Megan Hart
One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or… — John Green
Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that… — Deepak Chopra
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing… — John Green
Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game. — Erin Morgenstern
The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star,… — Carl Sagan
You married Elora?” “Yes, briefly.” Oren emphasized how fleeting it had been. “We were wed because we thought it would be a good way to… — Amanda Hocking
Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to… — Deepak Chopra
No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginning Of your wisdom-light. — Sri Chinmoy
He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and… — Mary Balogh

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