Brevity of life quotes:

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  • The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life. -- Billy Graham
  • Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity. -- Thomas Ken
  • it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. -- Winifred Holtby
  • A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work. -- Don Marquis
  • The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life. -- Vita Sackville-West
  • The brevity of life is grace to walk on your own path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • The brevity of life is the grace to walk on your own path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end. -- Ignatius of Loyola
  • Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next. -- Max Lucado
  • Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
  • After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.' -- Anthony Marra
  • The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life -- Protagoras
  • This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. -- Rudyard Kipling
  • It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke. -- Maureen Johnson
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