Quotes About Fleeting

We danced and laughed into the morning. But gradually we stopped. It was as if we all knew that we could be happy for only a brief moment.

A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Nothing in this world is permanent.

A child's a plaything for an hour.

To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

It is always thus, impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.

The present will not long endure.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.

Charm is the measure of attraction's power To chain the fleeting fancy of the hour.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The world, like an accomplished hostess, pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.

There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today will be gone or, at best, riddled with broken links and outmoded code in five years, tops.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.