Quotes About Fleetingness

#1. When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.

Eckhart Tolle

#2. The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree, even as time goes by and I become increasingly aware of the fleetingness of all things.

James Nares

#3. In a dazzling vote of confidence for form over substance, our culture fawns over the fleetingness of being "in love" while discounting the importance of loving. (206)

Thomas Lewis

#4. The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

George Stillman Hillard

#5. Ever since my daughter was born I feel the fleetingness of time. And I don't want to waste it on getting the perfect lip color.

Madonna Ciccone

#6. A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it's a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality.

Phil Elvrum

#7. Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.

Matthew Henry

#8. I ought not to have stirred, I was swept into the dance, caught up in the whirling movement of things. Being in Time means running after the present. You run after things, you run with things, you flow away.

Eugene Ionesco

#9. This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.

Philippa Gregory

#10. Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Daniel Schorr

#11. To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.

Diet Eman

#12. When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

Robert Crumb

#13. What human beings can and should do, he wrote, is to conquer their fears, accept the fact that they themselves and all the things they encounter are transitory, and embrace the beauty and the pleasure of the world.

Stephen Greenblatt

#14. Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#15. Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican'

Dennis Prager

#16. Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things appear simple when they are not, and perhaps we forget this sometimes. Better not to forget.

Luca Parmitano

#17. pod. You mean nothing to me. And NOTHING you do now can hurt me! I hate you.

Elizabeth Acker

#18. I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

Young Jeezy