Top 32 Quotes About Life Is Short And Death
#1. The remains of five thousand monks were used to build the Chapel of Bones. It serves as a reminder that life is short and death is eternal.
Rick Riordan
#4. 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
#5. It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
John Phillips
#6. Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can.
Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity.
Jessica Khoury
#7. Why is it when I'm the one shot, I'm a baby, but when it's you, it's a matter of life and death and national security? (Joe)
Because I'm cuter in a short skirt. (Tee)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.
Milarepa
#9. If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?
Ken Kesey
#10. Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life. If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short, and that everything we do counts.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#11. Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
Michel De Montaigne
#12. I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.
Carew Papritz
#13. The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.
Michel Houellebecq
#14. Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
Desmond Morris
#15. The life of man is like the life of a blade of grass. Death comes, the grass withers, and behold life ends, and the flower falls of all greatness and all worldly goods.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#16. Write your dreams down, toss them into the sea, and make a wish, Isabel. Life is too short to live with regrets, own today as if it was your last.
A.M. Willard
#17. Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.
Swami Vivekananda
#18. 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
#19. Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.
Raymond Carver
#20. If last night proved anything, it's that life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short - and fragile - shot glass.
Samantha Sotto
#21. Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
Publilius Syrus
#22. 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
#24. Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.
Anthony Liccione
#25. His dying mind conjured up one last, reassuring thought.
In the end, don't we all come from dust anyway? We come from dust... and we end as dust.
The oh-so-short passage in between is the bit we call 'life'.
Everything ends eventually.
Everything.
Alex Scarrow
#26. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
James Boswell
#27. Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done ... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#28. Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#29. Experience has thought me that there is only one short step between Love and Hate, as there is between Life and Death.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#30. If love only belongs to the life, why life is so short and death feels more timeless and completely separates our closeness?
if so, why love doesn't belong to the death instead?
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#32. 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
