Sayings About The Brevity Of Life

#1. The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

Billy Graham

#2. The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

Sarah Ash

#3. What poet's persuasion can reconcile the length of those days with the brevity of life?

Rainer Maria Rilke

#4. Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Winifred Holtby

#6. Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

Thomas Ken

#7. Vocations almost always involve tasks that transcend a lifetime. They almost always involve throwing yourself into a historical process. They involve compensating for the brevity of life by finding membership in a historic commitment.

David Brooks

#8. Because of the brevity of life, the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.

Billy Graham

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The Bible has much to say about the brevity of life and the necessity of preparing for eternity. I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

Billy Graham

#12. It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

Maureen Johnson

#13. But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

Mark Twain

#14. The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.

Michel Houellebecq

#15. The single most frustrating and saddening aspect of human life is its shocking brevity.

Sean DeLauder

#16. This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

Rudyard Kipling

#17. More people died on 9/11, in one day, at the hand of Muslim terrorists than during the Inquisition.

Robert Jeffress

#18. This is not about the mere extension of life along a horizontal plane, but about the deepening of life along a vertical plane. Mere longevity cannot render life meaningful any more than brevity has the power to make it meaningless.

Peter Rollins

#19. We are pagans. We deify each other.

Lara Biyuts

#20. Lucky to have been where I have been

Jason Mraz

#21. The brevity of his life makes the sky a dark lid against which he will forever crack his head, to fall back onto earth, where everything alive eats and can be eaten.

Milan Kundera

#22. The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you
take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a
single hour.

Robert Musil

#24. Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.

M.R. Weston

#25. What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.

Richard Preston

#26. Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

Max Lucado

#27. Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Shirley Conran

#28. O Weep No More For
Me When I Am Gone!

Timothy Salter

#29. Do unto others, then run.

Benny Hill

#30. Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

Taylor Momsen

#31. 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

#32. Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Sol Luckman

#33. Falling as deeply in love with as many people, places, and things as you possibly can -- that's the best revenge on the unjust brevity of this fragile life.

Marc Parent

#34. 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

#35. Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Protagoras

#36. The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism - an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.

Kathryn Schulz