Quotes about Brief

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

But in order not to burden you any further, I beg your indulgence to hear us briefly.

Life is brief, art is long.

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.

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.

I have got to the age now where I can see how short a time we have to be here.

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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.

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

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."

We are here today and gone tomorrow.

Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment