Appearance Quote by Umberto Eco

“There is something so easy about flowers in a field—so natural and pure.”

— Lisa Boero

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

— Umberto Eco

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

— Horace

“But always too soon, right after a fleeting moment of hope, the floor opens up and I sink to the bottom again.”

— Natalie Taylor

I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a…

— Mark O'Donnell

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

— Ann Landers

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

— Andreï Makine

Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and call it…

— Chris Fabry

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

— Nicholas Sparks

“In this fleeting life, there is nothing stronger than a visual idea or moment stopped in time forever. And nothing does this better than…

— Richard Olsenius

“It was stolen. As most beautiful things eventually are.”

— Doug Dorst