Quotes about Momentary

Mark Twain

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

This quote is believed to have derived from a statement written by Horace Greeley in his autobiography. See related quote.

Christopher Hitchens

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.

F. Edward Hebert

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

As he predicted the Congressman was there long after the Secretary.

Horace

Anger is a momentary madness.

Dean Inge

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Keren Ann

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

Paul Auster

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Mark Manson

Little things, when we're caught up and fretting about them, often appear to be big and meaningful and world-changing in the moment they are happening.

Thomas Merton

Today will never come again.

Terry Pratchett

- DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER.

Morley Safer

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Carol Burnett

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

Jessica Lange

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

Eugene Ionesco

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.