Life Is Short Death Is Sure Quotes

#1. Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked.
"No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.

Rick Riordan

#2. O Weep No More For
Me When I Am Gone!

Timothy Salter

#3. Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

Joseph Conrad

#4. Just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic ... See, they have a beautiful life.

Lisa Genova

#5. People misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

Dorothy Gilman

#6. I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.

Rosie Thomas

#7. The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had, just enough time.

Kimberly Perry

#8. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

#9. The serious thoughts of our short stay here would be a great means of promoting godliness. What if death should come before we are ready? What if our life should breathe out before God's Spirit has breathed in? Whoever considers how flitting and winged his life is, will hasten his repentance!

Thomas Watson

#10. Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.

Denis Leary

#11. Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Desmond Morris

#12. What a short time I had been given to experience love. I felt as my life had only recently begun and now it would surely end at sunrise.

Meredith T. Taylor

#13. It's a messy business
being alive. But I'd rather have this short time with those I love than have an easy time. We forget about the things we saw that morning,and we choose to build a bigger sandcastle.

Emm Cole

#14. My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

Susan Hayward

#15. What is my true substance?
What will remain of me after my death?
Our life is as short as a raging fire:
flames the passer-by soon forgets,
ashes the wind blows away.
A man's life.

Omar Khayyam