Top Fleeting Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Fleeting quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Marianne Wiggins
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
Collection: Fleeting
Image of Alexandra Potter
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
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Image of Aubrey O'Day
Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting. You really have to have a legitimate talent to back it up.
- Aubrey O'Day
Collection: Fleeting
Image of Reginald Heber
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
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Image of Martin Esslin
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
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Image of Debbie Allen
Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.
- Debbie Allen
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Image of Miles Franklin
... we each have our fleeting hour.
- Miles Franklin
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Image of M. F. K. Fisher
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
Collection: Fleeting
Image of Ettore Sottsass
Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.
- Ettore Sottsass
Collection: Fleeting
Image of Steve Hagen
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
Collection: Fleeting
Image of Joaquin Sorolla
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
Collection: Fleeting
Image of Jeff Goldblum
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.
- Jeff Goldblum
Collection: Fleeting
Image of Jeff Goldblum
Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.
- Jeff Goldblum
Collection: Fleeting
Image of Louise Chandler Moulton
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.
- Louise Chandler Moulton
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Image of Jerold Panas
What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.
- Jerold Panas
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Image of Alicia Keys
Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.
- Alicia Keys
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Image of Eric Benet
I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.
- Eric Benet
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Image of William Osler
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
- William Osler
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Image of Sergei Lukyanenko
Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.
- Sergei Lukyanenko
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Image of Jim Butcher
Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.
- Jim Butcher
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Image of Mike Birbiglia
Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.
- Mike Birbiglia
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Image of Curtis Sittenfeld
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
Collection: Fleeting
Image of Trenton Lee Stewart
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
Collection: Fleeting
Image of Tom Clancy
Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?
- Tom Clancy
Collection: Fleeting
Image of Paulo Coelho
Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.
- Paulo Coelho
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Image of Sallust
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
- Sallust
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Image of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Image of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Image of Emily Giffin
It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.
- Emily Giffin
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Image of Christopher Hitchens
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.
- Christopher Hitchens
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Image of Samuel Johnson
The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Fran Lebowitz
Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.
- Fran Lebowitz
Collection: Fleeting
Image of Debbie Macomber
I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.
- Debbie Macomber
Collection: Fleeting