Marlin Fitzwater Quotes

All things are only transitory.

"No" is just a moment in time.

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

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

Ephemeral should be the default.

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

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.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

No blessing lasts forever.

Time is death.

A trend is exactly that, and it's going to disappear.

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

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

We pass through this world but once.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be.