“Speech is insufficient to utter the last things; and this troubles it not, because the last things may be heard speaking for themselves. At last, after long delay the wondering soul gives form to that which is stirring within it and produces its works art and song and mighty deeds.”

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”

“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.”

“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions! ”

“The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.”

“For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.”

“The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.”

“The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.”

“Thus in these same five words aforesaid: I may make all things well, etc., I understand a mighty comfort of all the works of our Lord God that are yet to come. There is a Deed the which the blessed Trinity shall do in the last Day, as to my sight, and when the Deed shall be, and how it shall be done, is unknown of all creatures that are beneath Christ, and shall be till when it is done.”

“Theological writing always transgresses itself, just as theological speech feeds on the silence in which, at last, it speaks correctly.”