Brief Quotes

672 Brief quotes by 541 unique authors

The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
For a brief, weird minute I felt like Dorothy in Oz, walking down the street with Terric the doubtful, Shame the brainless, and heartless Zay. — Devon Monk
I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to… — Ellen Hopkins
Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it… — Siri Hustvedt
Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains — Paolo Giordano
The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters. — Christopher Paolini
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? — Stephen King
My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing… — William Shakespeare
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner. — William Butler Yeats
He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world… — Diana Gabaldon
Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said… — George R. R. Martin
I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass… — Jerome K. Jerome
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded my hands in… — Nicholas Sparks
It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. — John Green
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… — Viktor E. Frankl
The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came… — Laini Taylor
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips… — Geoffrey Chaucer
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… — Oscar Wilde
When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity… — Anne Rice
And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. — William Shakespeare
But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled,… — David Klass
Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please. — Stephen King
He so did not sit down and have a proper talk with her. I know it. He probably sent her a brief text, saying, Over.… — Sophie Kinsella

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