Momentary Quotes

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

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.

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.

Anger is a momentary madness.

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

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

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.

Today will never come again.

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

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

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

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

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.

No blessing lasts forever.

An actor can make an impact even in a role of five minutes.

Life is like this: things come and go.

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

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

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

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

Content is a glimpse.

Good things only can last so long.

I think the best thing about a bubble is that it pops and is gone. That is what makes it so precious.