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Live mindful of how brief your life is. — Horace

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short. — Michael Ignatieff

Calm. Haste makes waste. Life is not an emergency. Life is brief and it is fleeting but it is not an emergency. — Ann Voskamp

Never mind. Never mind. In this brief life, one cannot always be counting the cost. — Christopher Isherwood

And though the years before I die
Stretch out interminably, I
Shall only count my life in truth
As that brief hour of happy youth. — Ibn Hazm

Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened. — Robin McKinley

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells. — Lian Hearn

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment. — Kenneth Scott Latourette

Life can be all too brief. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness
how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got! — Yann Martel

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. — Henrik Ibsen

If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief — Sunday Adelaja

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

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled. — Paullina Simons

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief; — William Cullen Bryant

Life is brief but love is LONG . — Alfred Tennyson

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes — James Altucher

Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever — Rory Stewart

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career. — Pete Maravich

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Life is dessert - too brief to hurry. — Ann Voskamp

Our brief, little life here on Earth represents the only time in all of eternity when we can glorify God in the midst of struggle. — Wayne Stiles

In life's brief game to be a winner
A man must have ... oh yes, above
All else, of course, someone to love. — Vikram Seth

Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression. — Monica Murphy

Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again ... anything. — Richelle E. Goodrich

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time. — Pema Chodron

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

Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough — Jeanette Winterson

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. — Juliet Blackwell

Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one? — Sydney J. Harris

In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender. — Candy Chang

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

Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. — Bertrand Russell

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. — B. Alan Wallace

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. — Robert Breault

Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime. — Lisa Williams

A brief life burns brightly. — Stephen Baxter

In brief, the Tree of Life is a compendium of science, psychology, philosophy and theology. — Dion Fortune

It's amazing when you think about it, all the possibilities, the things that might happen in this brief life if you're brave enough to try. — Suzanne Supplee

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. — Oscar Wilde

Matthew had been accumulating secrets ... My life might be too brief to hear them all, never mind understand them. — Deborah Harkness

This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity. — Brian Rathbone

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation. — Floyd Skloot

In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility. — Bryant McGill

In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life. — Lucretius

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs. — Wilson Mizner

If truth is the end of life happiness is a mode of it, to be cherished in its brief and tremulous moment. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region. — Marcus Aurelius

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided. — Rod Stewart

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. — Viktor E. Frankl

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be. — Madame De Stael

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise. — Poul Anderson

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life. — Jesse Kellerman

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death. — Simone De Beauvoir

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. — Edward Dunlop

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. — Kiki Dimoula

How could I think the brief years were enough
To prove the reality of endless love? — Delmore Schwartz

No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes. — George Eliot

Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends — Josh Stern

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life? — Mo Yan

Brief life is here our portion. — John Mason Neale

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — Rudyard Kipling

how much longer
is my life?
a brief night... — Shiki Masaoka

In this brief life our ours, it is sad to do almost anything for the last time. — Charles Dickens

Life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty. — Garrison Keillor

More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life. — Chad Hurley

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

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it. — Cormac McCarthy

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

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition. — Alastair Humphreys

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge. — Tom Jenkinson

Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. — Marilynne Robinson

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price. — Oriana Fallaci

Life is a brief shot at something incredible — Melanie Gow

He watched her go, wondering if life ever offered happiness in more than very small, very brief doses. T — Mary Balogh