Top 1200 Fleeting Life Quotes & Sayings

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

Dancing through life Swaying and sweeping And always keeping cool Life is faught less When you're thoughtless Those who don't try Never look foolish Dancing through life Mindless and careless Make sure you're where less Trouble is rife Woes are fleeting Blows are glancing When you're dancing Through life.

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

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, dispelling the transience in it.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.

Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

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.

You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you’re out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.

We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

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.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

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.

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.

All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

You don't always realize the impact you have on people's lives. You just think 'I'm an actor, I don't think I'm doing anything particularly important in life' and then you suddenly realize that actually for a fleeting moment you do make a difference to somebody's life - it has an impact.

Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

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.

Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

You may think you don't want to throw your life away for mere fleeting euphoria. But, once you get a taste, it doesn't feel so mere. From then on the planet becomes a waiting room. The rest of your life devolves to no more than the time between highs.

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

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

This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

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.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.

No, but I've never been one for wise ideas," he says. "I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And life needs to be interesting because we've got only one of them to live.

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.