Quotes About Fleeting

Everything is passing ... enjoy its momentariness

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

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

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

The thing about happiness, though, is that it never lasts.

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on

Dying is such a waste of good health.

This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

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