Top 1200 Fleeting World Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

I know the names of possible signings get fans excited, but it's a very fleeting kind of excitement.

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

I think fame is hard in any capacity. It's so fleeting; it's not anything that you can really grab.

Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.

Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.

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

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

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

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

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.

I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

I have realised that we are running after things that are so temporary and fleeting - be it fame or money or anything like that.

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.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

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.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

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.

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.

You have no idea How much you do for mankind When you love God unconditionally Even for a fleeting moment.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

Once I started playing as a striker, I'd say I looked up to Julie Fleeting and Thierry Henry.

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

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

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

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

In the land of Cheerios, dirty diapers, fleeting naps and interrupted sleep, other mothers are a lifeline.

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.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

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

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

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.

Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview--you'll be interviewing the next guy.

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.

What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.

The industry gives an actor many reasons to feel insecure primarily because of its fleeting nature.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

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

As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

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.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

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

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

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.

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

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