Quotes about Fleeting

they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have liftoff power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.

Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.