1. fleeting - Adjective
2. fleeting - Verb
4. fleeting - Adjective Satellite
of Fleet
Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.
Source: Webster's dictionaryRemember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Marcus Aurelius
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
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view. Oliver Goldsmith
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. Tennessee Williams
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. Ann Landers
The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day. Carl Sagan