Fleeting Quotes

347 Fleeting quotes by 294 unique authors

They promised me that this would be my home. That girls like you would always be my sisters. But they weren't my sisters, were they?"… — Ally Carter
So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in… — Robert Herrick
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb… — Charles Baudelaire
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort… — W. Somerset Maugham
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls… — Merce Cunningham
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. — Hippocrates
A beautiful blossom is a fleeting thing It stays for a moment and then takes wing: With special rays we catch it ere flight So… — Unknown Author
The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment. — Tennessee Williams
Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyche's… — Unknown Author
Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn. — Umberto Eco
Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal… — Graydon Carter
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting. — Felix Dennis
Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting. — Beth Brooke
Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life,… — Said Nursi
Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit… — Max Heindel
When you are up there, feeling infinite space, the earth looks like a fragile planet against the immense universe. We are just another fleeting species,… — Guy Laliberte
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. — Sallust
If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the… — Jay McInerney
I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient… — William Wordsworth
Sex is a fleeting sensation, but most people dont seem to mind. — Chuck Palahniuk
So, often in the course Of life's few fleeting years, A single pleasure costs The soul a thousand tears. — Francis William Bourdillon
Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are… — Unknown Author
Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back… — Unknown Author
My resolution's placed, and I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant, now the fleeting moon No planet… — William Shakespeare

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294 authors contributed a total of 347 Fleeting Quotes, led by these top contributors: