Brief Quotes

The briefest moment shared with you-the longest on my mind.

Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.

Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.