Quotes about Fleeting

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

Trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

And if our hearts aren't awakened by majesty, our lives soon shrink into little bits of nothingness. Our days become filled with drama over the ridiculous; our complaints fly free at the smallest challenge or difficulty; our energy and wealth are consumed by what is fleeting; and our chatter becomes dominated by events, people, and things that won't last much longer than the morning mist. To

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Affirmation from others is fickle and fleeting. If you want to make an impact during your lifetime, you have to trade the praise you could receive from others for the things of value that you can accomplish. You can't be "one of the boys" and follow your destiny at the same time.

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.