Top 1200 Brevity Of Life Quotes & Sayings

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.

Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offsping similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man’s grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night.

The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat.