Fleeting Quotes

• There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Relationship, Smile, Im Sorry

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• For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

  George S. Patton

  Horse, Children, War

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

  Omar Khayyam

  Love, Sexy, Thinking

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• We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Mistake, Grateful, Thinking

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• Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Art, Long

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Thinking, Doubt

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 416), March 6, 1995.

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• This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.

  Charles Lamb

  Lying, Men, Shining

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

  Robin Williams

  Philosophy, Earth Life, Long

  "Fictional character: Jack Powell". "Jack", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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

  Samuel Garth

  Rocks, Air, Desert

  Sir Samuel Garth, Samuel Johnson (1807). “The Poetical Works of Sir Samuel Garth: With the Life of the Author, by Samuel Johnson”, p.44

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• 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.

  Andre Breton

  Life, Feelings, Enlightenment

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• I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Philosophical, Knowing

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• Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

  Paul Cezanne

  Reality, Giving, Mind

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• The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.

  Theodor Adorno

  Fall, Eye, Self

  Theodor W Adorno (2005). “The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture”, p.103, Routledge

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Half, Literature

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.403, CUP Archive

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• Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

  Billie Jean King

  Forever, Victory, Losing

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• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  W. H. Auden

  Marriage, Interesting, Romance

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• Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.

  Robin Williams

  Summer, Stars, Eye

  "Fictional character: Jack Powell". "Jack", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• 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

  People, Connections, Kind

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• I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Beautiful, Inner Peace, Trying

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• With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

  Geddy Lee

  Littles, Satisfaction, Restless

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• 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.

  Pete Maravich

  Basketball, Dedication, Light

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• Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

  Perry Como

  Running, Kids, Glasses

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• Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (48), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Travel, Home, Independent

  "The Painter of Modern Life".

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• Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Dream, Buddhist

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