Fleeting Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Fleeting Quotes from famous persons: Jonathan Banks, Charles Baudelaire, Rekha, Bonnie Hammer, Yo-Yo Ma. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Fleeting Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

Never equate yourself with whatever success may be and how fleeting that is. The only thing you can do every day is become a better actor. That’s the only thing I have control over.

Jonathan Banks

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire

People give more importance to material things, it all seems to be a power game, while people ought be making the most of every moment as time is fleeting.

Rekha

My career is really, really important, and I love it, but the life highs – like seeing my son graduate – need to me to be more important than the career highs, which are fleeting.

Bonnie Hammer

Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I’m sure of this; I’ve always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.

Yo-Yo Ma

Success, I’ve come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn’t value it too much.

Marina and the Diamonds

To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Banaras really pulls you. I had been to the city several years ago for a film shoot. Though I have very fleeting memories of that stay, I still remember that I had gone to Kashi Vishwanath temple and shopped for some Banarasi saris.

Himani Shivpuri

I understood at a young age that administrations come and go, but laws stay. So I decided to become a lawyer in order to help create a more just and peaceful world, not just in a fleeting moment but in a way that will endure from one generation to the next.

Kerry Kennedy

I wish sometimes people wouldn’t underestimate me. But it’s a fleeting wish. It’s not where I live.

Mary Steenburgen

Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That’s what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.

Kobe Bryant

I’m not playing for lack of options. But this is such a fleeting thing. When I’m done, I’m never, ever going to be able to come back to it. I know Vancouver is my last go.

Angela Ruggiero

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there’s something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it’s fleeting, and it’s temporal.

Pete Docter

It’s no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

Walt Mossberg

I have realised that we are running after things that are so temporary and fleeting – be it fame or money or anything like that.

Radhika Madan

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Christopher Morley

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

Tori Amos

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.

Cornelia Parker

Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and cry of words. Its force of feeling lies in the physical image, fleeting or static.

Merce Cunningham

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced… because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Charles Stanley

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn’t count in my life scheme.

Ali MacGraw

I loved photography but was frustrated by the limitations of cameras. When trying to take a picture of a friend’s young, active daughter using my DSLR, it was impossible to capture the fleeting moments.

Ren Ng

Easter is an ancient festival of rebirth, but it’s also an excellent excuse for eating eggs. I really like eggs, of both the chocolate and chicken variety. But the chocolate ones, you must admit, can sustain only a fleeting interest. A sweet, sugary hit – and then it’s gone.

Alice Roberts

Sophia – a mystical female presence whose appearance is only fleeting in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament – was clearly once a household name and a fixture in everyday lives.

Bettany Hughes

Deep engagement is much more powerful and valuable than fleeting mass market engagement.

Freddie Wong

I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.

Marc Martel

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

Nellie McKay

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

Andre Breton

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I’m simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

Gordon Smith

When your mother dies in your arms, your perception of life changes. I think the whole thing is just a fleeting illusion.

Gaspar Noe

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

Felix Dennis

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person’s thoughts.

Sam Harris

Happiness is fleeting – I think that’s the main lesson I have learned.

Cate Blanchett

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

W. H. Auden

Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms… We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth.

Adrianne Lenker

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting – she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely… gone.

Meghan O’Rourke

I’ve been in this business a long time, and I’m very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

Tamara Tunie

For me, it’s always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

Jason Silva

It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

Andrew Wyeth

I know the names of possible signings get fans excited, but it’s a very fleeting kind of excitement.

Ernesto Valverde

In my Scandinavian–American family, we were conditioned never to sit, at least not comfortably. I was endlessly going back to work. We longed for the fleeting respite of being useful and regarded sleep as a reward for exhaustion, always to be deferred until after the sun goes down.

Hope Jahren

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it’s always fleeting.

Alex Ebert

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

All glory is fleeting. And, If you do not love what you do, don’t do it.

Ronnie Screwvala

Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one another and therefore cherish what we know from what we’ve heard, and mourn the loss, even though we’re spared what the close-loved ones must endure – the ongoing pain of an empty place in the heart for the rest of life.

Mimi Kennedy

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn’t always happen – and then, what happens when it doesn’t?

Mary Ellen Mark

Our reality is narrow, confined, and fleeting. Whatever we think is important right now, in our mundane lives, will no longer be important against a grander sense of time and space.

Liu Cixin

I’ve been privy to certain experiences which have allowed me to realize how fleeting time is, in any case, and how ultimately not important this is. ‘This’ being the things perhaps we trip on in life.

Terence Trent D’Arby

I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn’t a fleeting thing.

Sue Monk Kidd

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

I don’t take success very well, because I know it’s fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don’t get too high, and I don’t get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.

James Garner

I’ve just learned that love is a very fleeting thing, so we – then we have it; we need to hold on to it but hold on to it in a gracious fashion. Not in the smothering but more so just a covering kind of love.

Betty Wright

If you’re totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don’t instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics – your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.

Martha Beck

I understand the world of addiction. I get it. I know how fleeting recovery can be.

Kim Reynolds

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Diane Ackerman

My time in war zones have been fleeting and infrequent. I’ve been to Iraq. I’ve been to Afghanistan. I’ve been to other places where I’ve collected hazardous duty pay.

Michael Hayden

All my experience in film has been quite fleeting and tokenesque.

Goldie

I think fame is hard in any capacity. It’s so fleeting; it’s not anything that you can really grab.

Melissa Rauch

People always say time heals. Time doesn’t necessarily heal anything. It allows you to manage things. There are occasions where you feel the pain as if it just happened, but you know that it’s a fleeting moment.

Jason Reynolds

There have been people I’ve warmed to over the years but, as the situation I’m in is so fleeting and transient, I’ve always known it’s going to be over kind of real quick.

Robert Plant

Father John Misty is rebelling not against repression or foolishness but the ephemeral nature of mankind. He seeks permanence in a fleeting age, and he does not find it because the one place he could find an answer, he considers closed off: a locked door.

Ben Domenech

The industry gives an actor many reasons to feel insecure primarily because of its fleeting nature.

Ishita Dutta

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.

Sebastian Faulks

I think people sometimes get stressed out when they have a newborn and an infant. Try to enjoy it because the time is so fleeting, and soon enough, they’ll be running around and be more independent. You’re going to miss that time.

Sara Gilbert

I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don’t get the opportunities that I’m getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Television is fickle, and it’s fleeting.

Philip Winchester

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

Jay McInerney

Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn’t bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it’s fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you’re still there.

Tatiana Maslany

Sometimes you meet someone who changes the way you think forever and yet you meet her for just those fleeting moments in life, perhaps never to meet her again.

Vikram Bhatt

Obviously, everyone knows it is hard to hang it up, but I’m definitely going to try and do it the right way and not like how combat athletes have done and hold on too long for every last fleeting moment. I don’t want to be one of those people.

Ben Askren

Grief is like wandering through a minefield, as my mother puts it: however carefully you tread, a sudden detonation can happen out of nowhere. A song played in a supermarket; an overheard phrase; someone in the distance who your mind cruelly suggests is your loved one for a fleeting moment.

Owen Jones

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was – and how fleeting life is.

Mary Ellen Mark

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

‘Passione’ is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.

Andrea Bocelli

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

The camera caught me just by chance, in a fleeting movement in another actor’s show reel. That’s how I landed ‘Ramayan.’

Gurmeet Choudhary

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don’t see them.

Paul Epworth

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