Quotes About Brevity

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

The part of life which we really live is short.

Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every television programme the same.

A concisão é a luxúria do pensamento.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Cease, cows, life is short.

Life is short, yet sweet.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.

The things that look fixed in the world, child—mountains, wealth, empires—their permanence is only an illusion. We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives. From the perspective of God, cities like this come and go like anthills.

The things that look fixed in the world, child - mountains, wealth, empires - their permanence is only an illusion. We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives.

The things that look fixed in this world, child--mountains, wealth, empires--their permanence is only an illusion. We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives. From the perspective of God, cities like this come and go like anthills.

What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Conciseness is underrated

We both felt that the chief virtue of an interpreter consists in clarity combined with brevity. And