Maybe to have a memory you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.
We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.
Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
The Dark Angel had seen much over the course of the past millennia, the passing of hundreds of thousands of mortal lives. He felt neither remorse nor mercy for the enemies he had felled in the course of wars and battles. He did what he had to do and ...
[W]e, being who and what we are, cannot know unless we are taught by that which is other than we, and that means by the Spirit of God, albeit in diverse mediations. Though nature is relatively passive under our enquiry… it remains true that knowled...
Alline knew that he could not do anything to make himself more saved, for the righteousness of Christ was sufficient. But he did see that what he did on the earth now would matter greatly in heaven. What he sowed now he would reap later. He saw the g...
It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it's just a blink.
I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.
It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?
There is power within great sacrifice, within noble deeds. There are moments... brief, shining moments when the impossible becomes possible.
As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.
Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.
Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To no more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again..........anything.
I find myself pausing to admire her face. For a brief moment, I'm lost to my surroundings.
To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.
There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.
