brevity of life
Our fleeting existence
Brevity of life is the shortness of human existence, the recognition that life passes quickly and death comes for everyone.
The phrase typically appears in philosophical or religious contexts reflecting on mortality: The brevity of life makes each day precious.
It echoes the Latin *vita brevis*, the opening of Hippocrates' famous aphorism that art is long but life is short.
- fleetingPassing very quickly
- fleeting momentTransient instant
- mortalityState of eventual death
- mortal coilTurmoil of human existence
- transienceBrevity of existence
ephemeral · fragile · hourglass · sands of time · ticking clock · sunset · candle · breath · final breath · dust · shadow · vanishing · fading · passing · momentary · finite · autumn · withering
brevity of lifelongevity
Duration of existence
long life · eternity · eternal life · immortality · everlasting life
brevity, brief, briefly, briefness, briefs, briefer, briefest, abbreviate, abbreviation