Life Short Lived Quotes

#1. Every leaf knows that time is very short. All life must be lived before the autumn comes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. Life is simply too short to live it less perfectly than it could be lived.

J.P. Delaney

#4. A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

Steven J. Carroll

#5. Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

Arthur Nersesian

#6. Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

Ann Brashares

#7. A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#8. I was bullied a lot because I was a midget in this land of giants I lived in. Sometimes, my only weapon was whatever I could throw. I couldn't be held responsible. I didn't choose the short life; the short life chose me.

Nicole Banks

#9. We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.

Elizabeth Berg

#10. Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed.

Richard Bach

#11. Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn't remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had been cut from an automobile tire, three knives in her belt.

Emily St. John Mandel

#12. Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.

Ruth Ozeki

#13. If your belief system, mission, values and attitude are poisoned or contaminated, then expect whatever you enjoy and perceive as success to be short-lived.

Archibald Marwizi

#14. Fame can take a toll on your personal life. Half of us were in short-lived marriages or not married at all. When you are doing something you love so much that you once did for free, and then someone pays you to do it, it's like a blessing. But you have to be prepared for it.

Big Bank Hank

#15. The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

Frederick Lenz

#16. The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

Salvador Minuchin

#17. Life was too short, no matter how long you lived.

-Ehlena's thoughts

J.R. Ward

#18. It's that short-lived happiness, which empowers us to bear; long-lasting pain in living.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#19. Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

Natalie Babbitt

#20. Life is short and must be lived.

Nancy E. Turner

#21. It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

Jeremy Northam

#22. Foolish wise folk sneer at you; foolish wise folk would pull up the useless lilies, the needless roses, from the garden, would plant in their places only serviceable wholesome cabbage. But the Gardener knowing better, plants the silly short-lived flowers; foolish wise folk, asking for what purpose.

Jerome K. Jerome

#23. Cancer teaches that life is too short to be lived like that; you take you knocks when they come, not in advance.

Olive Ann Burns

#24. Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They're so short-lived that, even if they have planets, there is unlikely to be time for life to get started. The surface is 40,000C and, as a result, the colouring will be extremely blue.

Martin Rees

#25. To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.

Evan Osnos

#26. Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.

Pope John Paul II

#27. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

Randy Pausch

#28. Try to live with as few regrets as you can short of zero. A life with no regrets at all was never really lived.

D.X. Logan

#29. Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

Richard Bach

#30. Life is short, do not hesitate!
Enjoyed and lived Now because Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is only an illusion!

Ebelsain Villegas

#31. Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said, "Lord help my poor soul." As he had lived so he died-in great misery and tragedy.

Edgar Allan Poe

#32. Life is too short to be lived badly.

Marjane Satrapi

#33. I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short.

Lauren Bacall

#34. Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

#35. Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

Frank Norris

#36. For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

Juvenal

#37. Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

Kate Winslet

#38. Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it, and then you're done. You have no control, no say, and all of a sudden there's all of this distance between the work you've put into something and the product as you see it appear on-screen.

Maggie Siff

#39. Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Charles Spurgeon

#40. Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy lines. The reason people lived longer is because there was less negative energy in the world.

Frederick Lenz

#41. My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was known for his intelligence, wit, wisdom, a wonderful sense of humour, a great personality, and a genuine goodwill towards all.

Ajay Mehta

#42. Love is the essential ingredient. Without it, sex is meaningless, approval is bribery, and success is short-lived.

Vironika Tugaleva

#43. No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

Marcus Tullius Cicero