Life Is So Fleeting Quotes

#1. Life is so fleeting. I am so busy enjoying it that I have no time to get angry.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Nothing lasts forever. Everything is fleeting. And yet, that's the very reason that life has meaning. When things cost effort to gain and are finite they are of value.

Sarah Noffke

#3. Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

Tom Clancy

#4. I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.

Norman Lock

#5. It struck me tonight how music mirrors life. Fleeting ephemeral moments, made up of beauty, sadness, joy, hope and despair. Melodies which are written in both major and minor keys. Flowing and fleeting. You can't hold onto it, or keep it from changing. Our emotions possess the evanescence of a note.

Virginia Burges

#6. What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

Umberto Eco

#7. Like a clock of life on which the seconds race, the page number hangs over the characters in a novel. Where is the reader who has not once lifted to it a fleeting, fearful glance?

Walter Benjamin

#8. The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

James Joyce

#9. Life on Earth is fleeting. It's a gift, but when God wants you, He will take you. It's not meant to be a punishment
Cricket Hunt

Fisher Amelie

#10. Knowing even as I craved permanence in New York City, that would never come to pass. The pair of us would live for as long as we could. As well as well could. That was all. Then we'd blow away like wishes made on dandelion heads.

Lyndsay Faye

#11. For the first time Saya understood how people can grow accustomed to war. Intensified by the stark contrast between life and death, fleeting moments of joy such as these could make one almost mad with happiness.

Noriko Ogiwara

#12. Don't be snowed by a handsome guy at a bookstore who quotes Cicero and Proust. They are often not the real thing. As with many fleeting pleasures
travel in their company, enjoy them every so often, and then get on with your life.

Jennifer Kaufman

#13. Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#14. Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

James Rozoff

#15. What makes human life
which is inseparable from this moment
so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

Steve Hagen

#16. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Ann Brashares

#17. IMPERMANENCE means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually see each and every little movement of mind - changing, changing, changing.

Pema Chodron

#18. A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting...

Stuti Dhyani

#19. You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.

Johnny Galecki

#20. Due to their short bloom time, Sakura blossoms are a metaphor for life itself: beautiful yet fleeting. You'll realize when you're as old as me to hang on to the good times because they won't last forever.

Shannon Mullen

#21. They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.

William Alexander Percy

#22. Isn't it really true that life is so beautiful because it's so fleeting and fragile?

Elizabeth Berg

#23. Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Marcus Aurelius

#24. So I guess what I am trying to say is life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season
or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all. Our choices. Our fleeting moments together.

Emily Giffin

#25. You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment ... Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.

Susan Wiggs

#26. Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.

Said Nursi

#27. I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.

Jerry Hall

#28. Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right now. And that moment is counting down. And that moment is always, always fleeting. You will never be as young as you are right now.

Neil Pasricha

#29. In particular, I'd realized that although I possessed all the elements of a happy life, too often I took my circumstances for granted and allowed myself to become overly vexed by petty annoyances or fleeting worries. I'd wanted to appreciate my life more, and to live up to it better.

Gretchen Rubin

#30. Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon such beauty and strength that, in no time at all, you'll fully grasp exactly why you're so gossiped about here in the unseen

Mike Dooley

#31. What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

Howard Thurman

#32. One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#33. Happiness is a habit,
it's more than fleeting,
more than a disintegrating lozenge.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#34. Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.

Nikki Rowe

#35. Do you believe that our stories were written from before that we are but actors performing on the stage called life with neither rehearsals nor retakes, the dialogues of our own and a fleeting audience or are you someone who pens down his own story?

Chirag Tulsiani

#36. We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

Jennifer Niven

#37. At the end of the day
all we ever need is
something
that helped
pass the time
and something
that keeps time from passing.

Sanober Khan

#38. Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

Christopher Hitchens

#39. Our souls are transitory; one single life is fleeting. Based on some children's accounts, not all souls are immediately reincarnated. Sometimes the consciousness can choose rebirth. What a lovely thought to look upon your child and realize that he entrusted you to raise him. What a gift.

Shelbi Wescott

#40. Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, but while it lasted,

Kate Atkinson

#41. Perhaps there were a few repetitions here and there. But I would like to confess that I consider nature and human life to be a lovely and charming flow of fleeting repetitions, and I would like further to confess that I regard this phenomenon as a beauty and a blessing.

Robert Walser

#42. There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same
fleeting and unknowable
for every one of us. I lived.

Marianne Wiggins

#43. Some storms last longer than others;
others, though fleeting, are more fierce.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#44. Life isn't the orderly black-and-white business we'd prefer it to be. It's messy and complicated and horribly blurred around the edges. All we can ever do is make the best of it. And maybe grab at those fleeting chances of happiness.' 'But never at the expense of anyone else's

Erica James

#45. Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day ... make a wish and think of me.

Robin Williams

#46. Don't seek love externally, it's fleeting. Go beyond the ego and awaken the
love that already exists within; it will encompass everyone and
everything in your life; it will permeate your very being.

Danielle Pierre

#47. learn pretty damn fast that everything else is smoke and mirrors. Fame. Money. Success. You realize that life is fleeting and family's what it's all about. It's the only thing that matters.

Brenda Novak

#48. Love made things feel precarious, and, when you got right down to it, everything in life was tenuous and fleeting and ultimately tragic.

Emily Giffin

#49. Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

Nellie McKay

#50. To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#51. The hardest part about life is getting out of our own way; in those often fleeting moments that we actually do, we always see light and peace.

Gregor Collins

#52. Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those glipmses are apt to be, give us hope both for this life and for whatever life may await us later on.

Frederick Buechner

#53. God knows, I'm no expert on relationships, but I do know when something's good. And this thing we've created between us is precious and rare. I only hope it's not fleeting, because for the first time in my adult life, I've given someone the power to hurt me.

Linda Castillo

#54. The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

Carl Sagan

#55. The fact that you can act with love even when you don't feel love is very empowering. Why? Because whereas the feelings of love are fleeting and largely out of your control, you can take the actions of love anytime and anyplace for the whole rest of your life.

Russ Harris

#56. you are
as fleetingly beautiful

as a mother's tears
and a father's pranks

a brother's bachelorhood
and a best friend's bad mood

a bride's glittering jitters
and a handsome stranger's smile.

Sanober Khan