Brief Quotes
672 quotes by 541 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains
— Paolo Giordano
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The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
— Christopher Paolini
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Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
— Stephen King
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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
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
— William Butler Yeats
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
— John Green
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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