Our Brief Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is…
— Juvenal
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All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our hands together, palm to palm,…
— Jens Jensen
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We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to…
— Charles Evans Hughes
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None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief…
— Hiroyuki Sanada
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When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious…
— Michael Kirby
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Celebrate our brief moment in the sun
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and…
— Donna Rice Hughes
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We all seek purpose in life. Most of us wonder how we can make a positive difference during our brief time on earth. But asking…
— Mac Anderson
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Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have…
— Jeff Schweitzer
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Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will…
— Randy Alcorn
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When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades…
— Richard Dawkins
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To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift…
— Terry Goodkind
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You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we…
— Ronald Reagan
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I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I…
— Elizabeth George Speare
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A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of…
— John F. Kennedy
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades…
— Richard Dawkins
Who Wrote These Our Brief Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Our Brief Quotes as follows: