Quotes of: Brief-moment Keyword

And in that moment he realised that even though the dreams they’d seen together, hoped for and believed in had come true, it wasn’t enough. It was far from reality which was lonesome and woeful. And conceived that love had no lastingness, it was ...

Chirag Tulsiani

Dawn and sunset are the times when Nature herself is unstable and in flux. The nocturnal world and the daytime world are meeting, and for a brief time coexisting. It's not a neat hard cut, but a blurred, irregular dissolve. These moments are the seam...

Bill Viola

the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like eyes in the look of a dog, like a square of wax, like a fire taking city hall, the county, the continent, like fire taking the hair of maidens and monsters; and hawks buzzing...

Charles Bukowski

They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can’t look away from it. Thus, by paralyzing their Present, we beat The Adversary on His home turf. And loop after loop, the depressed haunt and harrow the...

Geoffrey Wood

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.

A Brief History of Ireland

There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.

A Brief History of Montmaray

I always hated obvious dreams like that. I still do.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything. (attrib: E. Tancarville)

Citations: A Brief Anthology

You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

Never tell a warm-up joke before giving an intelligence briefing – just start the briefing so you can get straight to the really big laughs.

John Alejandro King

The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don't know what to do since when music hit you can't hit it back.

A Brief History of Seven Killings

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who’s trying to get thin.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

I guess sometimes the truth just isn't worth believing... Personally, I've always felt that life's too short for truth. I'm just here to be entertained.

Citations: A Brief Anthology

The trouble with believing conspiracies is you start seeing them everywhere, right? And everything becomes a part of them. But, of course, the trouble with not believing them is becoming a dupe.

Citations: A Brief Anthology

The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.

Citations: A Brief Anthology

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life