Fleeting Quotes

347 Fleeting quotes by 294 unique authors

Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in… — Michel de Certeau
Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever. — Joe Bob Briggs
I'm not playing for lack of options. But this is such a fleeting thing. When I'm done, I'm never, ever going to be able to… — Angela Ruggiero
What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of… — Marianne Wiggins
Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work… — Shonda Rhimes
Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting. — Aubrey O'Day
My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only… — Susan Wiggs
Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed… — Pope Pius XII
Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. -… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else… — Ramana Maharshi
Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled… — Unknown Author
There are certain days that are forever locked in our memories. They represent special times, places, and people that we capture in the scrapbook of… — Jim Stovall
The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe. — Cullen Hightower
The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely… — Alfred Wainwright
The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You canâ€™t take them with you. But they work for good… — James Cash Penney
Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal — Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the… — Walter Benjamin
Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes… — Perry Como
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good… — David Quammen

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