Fleeting Life Quotes

• Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Past, Men

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (10), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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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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• 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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• Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Art, Long

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

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• Life is short, the art long.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Art, Long

  Aphorisms sec. 1, para. 1.

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• You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you’re out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.

  Johnny Galecki

  People, Important, Twenties

  "15 Minutes With Johnny Galecki". Interview with Jon Steely, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2013.

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• 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

  William Cowper

  Weed, Wisdom, Flower

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.271

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• It just makes me realize how . . . fleeting life can be. How quickly it all passes by. And it's strange to read something written by someone whose life was really just beginning then but who's dead now."He nodded, looking like he was taking that in. But then he said, "That's kinda deep, Daisy."She laughed, rolled her eyes. "Well, you asked. So if that's too deep for you, tell me about your fish.""Well, they were small and blue and I feel emotional because their lives were really just starting but they're dead now.

  Toni Blake

  Eye, Emotional, Blue

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• From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.

  Rachel

  Queens, Writing, Dust

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• We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

  John Calvin

  Looks, Fit, Ifs

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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