Top 1200 Fleeting Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

All glory is fleeting. And, If you do not love what you do, don't do it.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

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

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

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

Love is very fleeting with me. I don't know why.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want to get closer to the heart of things, and sometimes even a few good sentences contained in an otherwise unexceptional book can crystallize vague feelings, fleeting physical sensations, or, sometimes, profound epiphanies." pg. xvi

A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

I have always had a fleeting relationship with clothing.

What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn’t come with guarantees – these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.

I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.

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

... we each have our fleeting hour.

The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

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.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

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

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

I understand the world of addiction. I get it. I know how fleeting recovery can be.

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

Television is fickle, and it's fleeting.

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 our minds. Just a fleeting thought of these memories can bring us back to that special time and place as well as the emotion we felt when we were there.

All my experience in film has been quite fleeting and tokenesque.

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.

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.

The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.

Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

You told me love was fickle and fleeting.

Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.