"Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the…" — Oliver Goldsmith

More Fleeting Quotes

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood… — Diane Ackerman
• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and… — Charles Baudelaire
• 'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments,… — 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… — Andre Breton
• Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used… — Kobe Bryant
• The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in… — Julie Burchill
• To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment… — 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… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
• An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look… — Fred Allen
• Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed. — Tori Amos

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