Quotes about Brief
What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
— Anonymous
Everything in life is just for a while.
— Philip K. Dick
We are here today and gone tomorrow.
— Anonymous
Everything gains only momentary explanation.
— Ravi Zacharias
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
— Paul Ricoeur
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.
— Samuel Johnson
Our days on earth are as a shadow. 1 CHRONICLES 29:15
— Billy Graham
Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Refractions of divine goodness are best identified, praised, and enjoyed. If their appearance is episodic and brief, and even if they are contaminated with selfishness or pride, don't let the unattractive features of someone's life blind you to the good.
— Edward Welch
Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment
— Victor Hugo
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— William Faulkner
they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have liftoff power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.
— Ravi Zacharias