Quotes about Fleeting
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
- Psalm 39:6
But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
- Psalm 49:12
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalm 62:9
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
- Psalm 78:39
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
- Psalm 83:13
You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
- Psalm 90:5
in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
- Psalm 90:6
The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- Psalm 90:10
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- Psalm 102:3
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- Psalm 102:11
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- Psalm 102:11
As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
- Psalm 103:15