Fleeting Perfection Quotes

Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest - that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated.

I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.

This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.

A moment is all you can expect from perfection.

That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet leaf by no least flaw is flecked. Love's supreme moment, when the soul unchecked Soars high as heaven, and its best rapture knows, These hold a deeper pathos than our woes, Since they leave nothing better to expect.