Quotes about Fleeting
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
- Isaiah 40:24
“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- Jeremiah 13:24
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
- Hosea 6:4
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
- Hosea 13:3
But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
- Jonah 4:10
But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
- Mark 4:17
and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.
- 1 Corinthians 7:31
Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
- 2 Corinthians 3:7
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- James 4:14
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
- 1 Peter 1:24
Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile. Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.
- Hippocrates
Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.
- Thomas Adams