'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.
I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.
Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.
Because I knew it wasn't for forever." Grace touched his hair and he bent his head to kiss her, quiet as a secret.