Life Isn't Short Quotes

#1. Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life truly is short. Let's spend it all lavishly wallowing in gratitude.

Grace Gealey

#2. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and that all we have to offer, in the end, is love.

Cheryl Strayed

#3. Life is so precious because it's short. Even the most resilient people are fragile. Life isn't about dying or not dying. It's about living well. Living so you can be proud and happy.

Ilona Andrews

#4. That life is far too short to waste on grudges. Love does not come along often. When it does, you can't throw it away because it isn't perfect.

Sophie Oak

#5. We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.

Steve Almond

#6. Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

Lauren Mayberry

#7. Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

Ted Rall

#8. I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

Hugh Lofting

#9. Life is much too short to waste time wallowing in the past especially when the future hands you a second chance.

Chakotay Talking to B'Ellana (When she asks him why he isn't mad her for lying about her and Miral being dead)
Book:Unworthy: pg. 121

Kirsten Beyer

#10. I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.

Ian Watson

#11. I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

Constance Renfrow

#12. All of a sudden I pulled up short and harked back to Ridley [Scott] holding up the script in Manhattan, at the St. Regis breakfast room, and saying, "It's very visual, isn't it," and realized it was the key to my whole life since then.

William Monahan

#13. If life is too short, isn't that more reason to make the most of what we've got? To live the way we want to?

Ayse Kulin

#14. I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working

Zack Love

#15. Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#16. Life is short. Ask God to give you perspective instead of believing the lies that your life isn't good enough.

Kerri Pomarolli

#17. Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.

Carl Sagan

#18. Love isn't meant to be hidden away. Life is too short for shame.

Jay Bell

#19. You want a piece of advice?" said Ripred.
"Don't bother. I know what you'll say. The whole thing's stupid," said Gregor.
"Quite the contrary. I was going to say that life is short. There are only a few good things in it, really. Don't pretend that one isn't happening." said Ripred.

Suzanne Collins

#20. It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

Edna Ferber

#21. Trust me, at the time nine hundred years seemed frighteningly short - it still does. I really don't know how you cope with your eighty-something life spans, and that's a best-case scenario, isn't it?

Tosca Lee

#22. life's too short, after all, isn't it? not to do the things you want - the things that make you happy? hannah had been thinking that quite a lot t. oday

Elizabeth Noble

#23. Love isn't meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

Jay Bell

#24. I guess sometimes the truth just isn't worth believing ... Personally, I've always felt that life's too short for truth. I'm just here to be entertained.

J. Ross Clara

#25. This isn't where I intended to be. Killing a person has a funny way of getting your life off-track.

Erin Mitchell

#26. Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

Fred Rogers

#27. Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn't, the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn't, is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.

Werner Erhard

#28. Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. "A brief life seems pointless."
Tristan thought for a moment. "Isn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift?

Chelsea Fine

#29. If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.

Viggo Mortensen

#30. The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything ... he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So long, boys.

Jack Kerouac Atop An Underwood Early Stories And Other Writings

#31. There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

George Washington Carver

#32. I've found that life is just too short to be anything other than positive. When something isn't going the way you want it to, then you have to switch gears and make a change,

Melody Anne