Quotes About Fleeting

But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery.

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Time is like the ancient Ouroboros. Time is fleeting moments, grains of sand passing through an hourglass. Time is the moments and events we so readily try to measure. But the ancient Ouroboros reminds us that in every moment, in every instant, in every event, is hidden the past, the present and the future. Eternity is hidden in every moment. Every departure is at once a return, every farewell is a greeting, every return is a parting. Everything is simultaneously a beginning and an end.

Life is a breath, a passing breeze; a blade of grass, green and vibrant for a time, only to wither, die, and disappear. Soon you will be dead.

Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.

Her face. And she smiling. For a moment, just that moment, you would have thought it was May morning.

Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

Let's make hay while it lasts.

People give more importance to material things, it all seems to be a power game, while people ought be making the most of every moment as time is fleeting.

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

When we all start to wake up and realize that our comforts are fleeting, and more money is never going to save this world, maybe, just maybe, will we be able to return back to the grace of America's principal values.

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

Nothing lasts forever in my profession.

We here a blink of an eye, even if we make it 75, 80 years, you still here a blink of an eye. Enjoy it.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

I think everything is temporary.

In a nightclub, the women's loos are not just the women's loos; they're where temporary female friendships are forged.

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

In old magazines and newspapers we find a number of uncomfortably revealing things: the aged as young, the dead as living, forgotten people as celebrities, an array of our own barbarous and long-discarded fads and postures, and worst, visible only in this removed perspective, our own sickening pretensions to meaning and permanence.