Fleeting Quotes - Page 5

• The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Past, Past Is Over

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• Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Views

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.6

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• Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
  To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

  Maynard James Keenan

  Eye, Heaven, Conscious

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• In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Beautiful, Suggestions

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.

  Belinda Peregrin

  Heart, Love Is, Light

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• That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Firsts, Process

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Spring, Heart

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• For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

  Juvenal

  Drinking, Age, Calling

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• But me, not destined such delights to share,
  My prime of life in wandering spent and care;
  Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue
  Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view
  That, like the circle bounding earth and skies,
  Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies;
  My fortune leads to traverse reams alone,
  And find no spot of all the world my own.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Views, Sky, Circles

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.2

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• Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his two drawings and made a complete panorama. Now, 163 years later, I was able to use his great invention to elaborate on his youthful dream of capturing and fixing the fleeting image. In doing so, I may also have added another little bit to the soul of this extraordinary place.

  John Pfahl

  Dream, Drawing, Filled In

  John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”

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• Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.

  Frank Iero

  Kids, Realizing, Moments

  Interview with Molly Louise Hudelson, circlesandsoundwaves.com. September 6, 2014.

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• Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Past, Ideas, Voice

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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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• What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay?
  A breath one single gasp must puff away!
  A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade!
  A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade!
  A stream that silently but swiftly glides
  To meet eternity's immeasured tides!
  A being, lost alike by pain or joy?
  A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy!
  Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone,
  Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.

  Alexander Brome

  Life, Art, Pain

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• In the land of Cheerios, dirty diapers, fleeting naps and interrupted sleep, other mothers are a lifeline.

  Susan Chira

  Mother, Dirty, Sleep

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• They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Silence, Sound, Abiding

  Arjuna Ardagh (2008). “Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and Into the Moment”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something as fleeting as fame and fortune. If you're presenting yourself in a way that important to you in communicating your vision, then so be it. No one should allow themselves to be exploited ever.

  Patti Smith

  Choices, Vision, Important

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past or future, it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present as part of itself.

  Gladys Hasty Carroll

  Girl, Past, Years

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• Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

  Ovid

  Years, Deceiving

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1010, Delphi Classics

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• Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

  Ali MacGraw

  Schemes, Modeling

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• What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

  Gordon Smith

  People, Important, Broadcasting

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• We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!

  Sam Keen

  People, May, Strange

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal.

  Mark Hart

  Love Is, People, Admiration

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.11, Franciscan Media

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• Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

  Carl Sagan

  Comfort, Cosmos, Superstitions

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.361, Ballantine Books

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