us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in…

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

— Winifred Holtby

“Et in Arcadia Ego”

— Numerous Evelyn Waugh

“Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless…

— Marcus Aurelius

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without…

— Albert Einstein

“For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity, and so on: but they forget the brevity…

— Charlotte Brontë

“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…

— Sarah Ash

There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is…

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

“Yeah shorten it. The original had an urgency that if you don’t practice creation, time will run out.”

— Dustin Lee

“The brevity of life is to be yourself.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women…

— Clarence Darrow

“We do not converse. She visits me to talk. My task to murmur. She talks about her grandsons, her daughter who lives in Delphi,…

— William H. Gass

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

— Thomas Ken

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little…

— Don Marquis

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

— William Shakespeare