Quotes About Brief

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

The only time the world shows you any favor, or cuts you any slack, is during that very brief period of courtship where the world is trying to fuck you for the first time.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

We're only here briefly. And while I'm here, I want to allow myself joy. So fuck it.

Meeting a namesake is one of the most delicate and most brief surprises.

Hello Buddy, good-bye Buddy. Caring was brief. There was a contract only until death.

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.

For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!

'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.

For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

Life on Earth, you see, is not only brief but dismayingly tenuous.

and that's you gone, but it was good while it lasted.

while—for a couple of minutes—it's actually

Please forgive the long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Notre durée vaine et chétive

Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

Now, I want you to know that while we watched You discover there was no one true Most ev'rybody really thought It was a childish thing to do Tears of rage, tears of grief Must I always be the thief? Come to me now, you know We're so low And life is brief

We could easily have been abject strangers with no history of brief unsatisfying cinematic sex between us.

Wavering between the profit and the loss In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying

Not even my not-finest hour. More like fifteen minutes.

The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span.