Quotes about Brief
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
— Job 20:5
But in order not to burden you any further, I beg your indulgence to hear us briefly.
— Acts 24:4
Life is brief, art is long.
— Hippocrates
Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.
— Thomas Adams
Do you not know this, that from time immemorial, Since man was first set on earth, The joy of the wicked has been brief?… Though evil is sweet to his taste, His food in his bowels turns to venom within him.
— Harold S. Kushner
I have got to the age now where I can see how short a time we have to be here.
— Wendell Berry
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— William Faulkner
memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.
— Isabel Allende
Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.
— Joseph Wirthlin
When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."
— Anonymous
We are here today and gone tomorrow.
— Anonymous
Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment
— Victor Hugo