Quotes about Brief
A short life to them, and a jolly death.
— Herman Melville
Our days on earth are as a shadow. 1 CHRONICLES 29:15
— Billy Graham
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because the real mushroom plant was underground. The parts you could see - what most people called a mushroom - was just a brief apparition. A cloud flower.
— Margaret Atwood
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
It's a town you come to for a short time.
— Ernest Hemingway
Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!
— Charles Spurgeon
Goethe is always pithy.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Brief life is here our portion.
— John Mason Neale
Our days on the earth are as a shadow.
— Anonymous
What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
— Anonymous
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