Brevity Of Life Quotes

“Et in Arcadia Ego”
― Numerous Evelyn Waugh

“A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

“O Weep No More For
Me When I Am Gone!”
― Timothy Salter, Reflections in Short Poetry

“Life is too short to spend tons of time around people who suck.”
― Tyler Merritt, I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America

“For, though seven years be a mere breath in the memories of the old, it is a long transfiguration to him whose first youth is passing, and who finds unsolicited additions accruing to some parts of his being and strange deprivations in others, and upon whom the unhappy realization begins to be borne in, that his is no particular case, and that he of all the world is not to be spared, but, like his forbears, must inevitably wriggle in the disguising crucible of time. And, though men accept it with apparently patient humor, the first realization that people do grow old, and that they do it before they have had time to be young, is apt to come like a shock.”
― Booth Tarkington, The Gentleman from Indiana

“The things that look fixed in the world, child - mountains, wealth, empires - their permanence is only an illusion. We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Human life lasts less than a moment in the temporal scale of eternity. An eternity that lies ahead of us, allowing us to “enjoy” the tranquility of our non-existence. Why not endure this tiny moment and make the most of something that will probably never happen again?”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“Merk dies allein: nicht eine einzige Stunde kommt zweimal im Leben, Nicht ein Wort, nicht eines Blickes Ungreifbares Nichts ist je Ungeschehn zu machen, was Du getan hast, mußt du tragen, So das Lächeln wie den Mord!”
― Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Der Kaiser und die Hexe

“Oh, humanity! Such is your existence. Why do you elevate yourself on rank, titles, riches, etc.? It may take shorter or longer, but once all this glory disappears like a shadow, ruler and beggar, marshal and soldier, all return once more to the same dust!”
― C. J. Wagevier, Aanteekeningen Gehouden Gedurende Mijnen Marsch Naar: Gevangenschap In, En Terugreize Uit Rusland In De Jaren 1812,1813 En 1814

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

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