Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. Iris Murdoch
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. Albert Einstein
The cause of the growth of the lower psychism and of the increasing sensitivity of humanity at this time is the sudden inflow of a new form of astral energy through the rent veil which has, until a short while ago, safeguarded the many. Alice Bailey
I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live. Confucius
Everything ends eventually. I guess that's what makes summer so intense, this feeling that it lasts for only a a short while and then it's back to reality. Katherine Applegate
It is short while seen the louse boore the langelt. Scottish Proverb