Fleeting famous quotes
04-09-2025
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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
-- A. E. Housman -
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 on too swift a wing.
-- Aga Khan III -
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 -
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.
-- Ali MacGraw -
The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred
-- Allen Ginsberg -
'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
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 come back to it. I know Vancouver is my last go.
-- Angela Ruggiero -
Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
-- Ann Brashares -
We are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth or status or power or fame, but rather how well we have Loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.
-- Barack Obama -
We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.
-- Bill Watterson -
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.
-- Brandon Mull -
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, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.
-- Carl Sagan -
One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely. The only thing we can do is arrive at a state of increased awareness that allows us to perceive the world around us in a more inclusive manner.
-- Carlos Castaneda -
Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.
-- Claudia Roden -
The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.
-- Cullen Hightower -
I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
-- Dani Shapiro -
Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?
-- David Baldacci -
Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting
-- David Levithan -
I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.
-- Debbie Macomber -
Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.
-- Deborah Harkness -
Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal
-- Donald E. Williams, Jr. -
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
-- Epictetus -
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
-- Felix Dennis -
There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
-- Francesco Guicciardini -
Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.
-- Frank Iero -
Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those glipmses are apt to be, give us hope both for this life and for whatever life may await us later on.
-- Frederick Buechner -
Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.
-- Frederick Leboyer -
With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
-- Geddy Lee -
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.
-- Henry James -
Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.
-- Henry Rollins -
Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.
-- Hrithik Roshan -
Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.
-- Ishmael Reed -
You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not be cool a year from now. If you're yourself, you'll be at peace with yourself.
-- Jaleel White -
How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.
-- James Clavell -
Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.
-- James E. Talmage -
I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.
-- James Garner -
What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.
-- James Nares -
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 bad luck to outlive it.
-- Jay McInerney -
Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.
-- Jeff Abbott -
We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.
-- Jennifer Niven -
Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a small price to pay for the upside that comes with this.
-- Jerome Bettis -
Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.
-- Jim Butcher -
What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to live with the added ***** of indignity. The denial of one's inevitable demise is what causes most of the astringent blandness in the world. When your existence ends most certainly in death, there is no such thing as 'going too far'. There are no 'lines' you should fear to cross except the finish line. Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you could do.
-- Jim Goad -
The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.
-- Joaquin Sorolla -
Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.
-- Joe Bob Briggs -
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.
-- John Locke -
O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
-- John Milton -
There is no better feeling than the feeling that I have done something right. That feeling comes so rarely and is so fleeting that I can never really enjoy it. So in a way, it's not a good feeling at all.
-- John S. Hall -
I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.
-- Joseph E. Johnston -
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
-- Julie Burchill -
The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?
-- Lucian -
If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.
-- M. F. K. Fisher -
I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
-- Marian Keyes -
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 us. I lived.
-- Marianne Wiggins -
It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.
-- Martin Esslin -
A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.
-- Martine Franck -
Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.
-- Megan Hart -
Everything in the media is fleeting. Don't get the wrong idea. Fame is when you're still the hot topic next week or even the week after.
-- Miki Aihara -
They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.
-- Miki Dora -
When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.
-- Ming-Dao Deng -
Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right now. And that moment is counting down. And that moment is always, always fleeting. You will never be as young as you are right now.
-- Neil Pasricha -
Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.
-- Nellie McKay -
At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.
-- Nicolas Berggruen -
Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.
-- Ovid -
One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.
-- Paul Epworth -
I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.
-- Randy Harrison -
The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.
-- Ray Kurzweil -
Thus heavenly hope is all serene,But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,As false and fleeting as 't is fair.
-- Reginald Heber -
Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.
-- Robert Pollok -
When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.
-- Robert Silverberg -
The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -
Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!
-- Ruth Ozeki -
Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.
-- Sergei Lukyanenko -
What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.
-- Steve Hagen -
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 to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.
-- Susan Wiggs -
Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.
-- Taylor Swift -
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
-- Tennessee Williams -
The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
-- Tennessee Williams -
Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
-- Thomas Gray -
As we seek Christ, as we find Him, as we follow Him, we shall have the Christmas spirit, not for one fleeting day each year, but as a companion always.
-- Thomas S. Monson -
Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?
-- Trenton Lee Stewart -
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
-- Umberto Eco -
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.
-- Wes Fesler -
Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.
-- Yo-Yo Ma -
Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting. You really have to have a legitimate talent to back it up.
-- Aubrey O'Day -
I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.
-- Eric Benet -
Time is always fleeting and the lunar phases represent that visually for me. What people take away from that and how they apply it within their own lives, that's entirely up to them.
-- Jacob Bannon -
What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.
-- Jerold Panas -
I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.
-- Joe Johnston -
A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.
-- Martine Franck -
You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.
-- Burk Uzzle -
There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.
-- Rosamunde Pilcher
