Quotes About Short Life

#1. Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

Caroline Knapp

#2. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it.

Seneca.

#3. A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.

Holly Black

#4. Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

Wilfrid Sheed

#5. I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain

Cassandra Clare

#6. The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

John Muir

#7. Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail,
And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale:
'Time is short, life is short,' they took up the tale:
'Life is sweet, love is sweet, use to-day while you may;
Love is sweet, and to-morrow may fail;
Love is sweet, use to-day.

Christina Rossetti

#8. I would rather live a short life out there and be free, than slowly die here and be safe.

Jared Southwick

#9. Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out,
unless of course it had a very short life cycle.

Lorii Myers

#10. Life is too short not to want to share it with someone and when you find that right person, you'll want to spend every second of that short life cherishing their heart like they will with yours.

Ash Johnson

#11. In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. In early spring, every petal of tulips sing a song of love and life, dance with joy and happiness to enjoy her short life of dazzling beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#13. I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Eknath Easwaran

#14. The only things that interested me were sports, girls, adventures, celebrities - in short, life.

Porfirio Rubirosa

#15. If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.

Jennifer DeLucy

#16. Long life, short life-did it matter when each day was the same, when humans were incapable of living for the moment because of their fundamental need for order, for the comfort of everyday routine.

Gemma Malley

#17. Home is where you feel the most like yourself. Home is the thing that makes you happiest during this very short life.
The person who makes you happiest.
I'd never known what a real home was, and now that I'd found it, I was never letting it go.

T.M. Frazier

#18. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Edith Schaeffer

#19. I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.

Anton Chekhov

#20. We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.

Hal Sutton

#21. Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

Mike Huckabee

#22. We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.

Anatole France

#23. One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

Homer

#24. A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

Karel Capek

#25. Layla. You've overcome so many obstacles in your short life already. If anyone can do this with grace and dignity, it's you. It'll be scary in a strange place with no one to turn to, but you've faced scarier things before, and you're still kickin' to tell the tale.

B.C. Burgess

#26. You only get a short life, so take chances.

John Galliano

#27. All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Charles Hazlewood

#28. No, he wanted her to smile because he could see that she needed it, that she'd had too little merriment in her short life.

Jody Hedlund

#29. Let your dreams and passion be heard. It is your life . Your one short life. Your vision is waiting to be realised. Go get it.

Timi Nadela

#30. Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It's then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future.

Ron Baratono

#31. I had reason to be wary of Rowan Gresham.

Crazy doesn't always look crazy.

Sometimes it looks like the most handsome and refined gentleman ever encountered in one's short life.

Jen Crane

#32. For this is what I have learned, in my short life: do not act out of anger. Act from love or not at all. I have seen it, how anger makes a space for what I must call evil.

Kim Edwards

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

Kimberly Perry

#34. In this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.

Emily Dickinson

#35. Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're thinking, 'Really dude? Were still here!' and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you're lucky, so what we've done is amazing.

Tommy Lee

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

Charles Spurgeon

#37. What lasting impact will I make on the world and those around me? What will I live my life for? How will I be remembered? I want to leave the world a better place than it was when I got here. I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

Theo Rossi

#38. I was betrayed, one more day, of my short life.
You were carried away, had no shame, to suffocate my being.

I was me, but you weren't you.
You were sticking to me like a scab.
So, I peeled you away...
Bled for days...
And stepped out of myself.

Pantera

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#40. I loved playing [the Doctor], and taking part in the basic essence and message of the series which is, it's a short life, seize it, and live it as fully as you can. Care for others. Be respectful of all other life forms, regardless of colour or creed. To be part of that was fantastic.

Christopher Eccleston

#41. Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.

Woody Allen

#42. Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.

Martiros Saryan

#43. Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#44. I've been more single than not in my short life.

Michael Kiwanuka

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

Steven J. Carroll

#46. She glanced over at the twisted wreckage of the chair - (a nice, Swedish chair that had done nothing in its short life to hurt anyone

Sylvain Reynard

#47. I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

Isaac Mizrahi

#48. My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life.

Tom Johnson

#49. Life is short. Life goes fast. And what I really want to do in my life is to bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world. I try to think of that every day so that I can remember why I am coming to my studio.

Ross Bleckner

#50. Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

Robert Mankoff

#51. I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

Alexander The Great

#52. I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Avicenna

#53. I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Queen Elizabeth II

#54. Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

Henry Miller

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

#56. I wish I'd been born with your capacity for wonder. I wouldn't mind living a shorter life if my short life could be as vivid as yours.

Sara Baume

#57. They are hopelessly vulgar. Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being 'bad' is a question for the metaphysicians. They are bad enough to dislike, at any rate; and for this short life that is quite enough.

Henry James

#58. 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

#59. I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.

Christofer Drew

#60. A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.

Jack Black

#61. A short life and a merry one at that!

Bartholomew Roberts

#62. In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

Louisa May Alcott

#63. "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."

Anton Chekhov

#64. Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

Dogen

#65. Only people with one short life want to go tearing out into the great unknown with nothing more than a flashlight and a stick to poke the rattlers with.

Peter F. Hamilton

#66. Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

Candice Bergen

#67. Life shouldn't be measured in hours for the vagueness in which they exist, but moments; moments are memorable and we could easily say that a short life filled with a stock of extraordinary memories is worth a thousand times what a long, boring and loveless one is.

Emiliano Campuzano

#68. It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.

Stephanie Mills

#69. I would rather have a short life with width rather than a narrow one with length.

Avicenna

#70. Learn well how to climb because you will come across with many hills and mountains in your short life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#71. Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

Tom Stoppard

#72. How short life is for fools.

Orson Scott Card

#73. Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon.

Eraldo Banovac

#74. To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

Argentina Palacios

#75. Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

Eric Greitens

#76. I can offer you my life, though it is a short life. I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope the rest of my life-whatever its length-happy, by spending it with you.-Jem.

Cassandra Clare

#77. If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn't plan to ask for either one.

Libba Bray

#78. Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

Emily Bronte

#79. Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#80. If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

Charles Caleb Colton

#81. Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

Rodney Dangerfield

#82. I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.

Tina Weymouth

#83. ...because life is short and you too are thirsty.

Adrienne Rich

#84. Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,
it is exceedingly short.

Henry Ward Beecher

#85. Long term thinking and planing enhances short term decision making. Make sure you have a plan of your life in your hand, and that includes the financial plan and your mission.

Manoj Arora

#86. I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Stephanie Perkins

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

David Starr Jordan

#88. I could deal with hate and fear, but for the love of all that's right in the world, don't fake like me. Life was too short to waste energy faking anything.

Donna Augustine

#89. Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if broken!

Avijeet Das

#90. Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#91. Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

Paul Bocuse

#92. Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Alyson Noel

#93. For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

Djuna Barnes

#94. I've never been a believer in fate. I like to think I'm in control, that my life hasn't been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change everything. This must be one of those times.

Kyle Richardson

#95. Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

Gautama Buddha

#96. If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

Jaggi Vasudev

#97. There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you.

Debasish Mridha

#98. Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

Otto Weininger

#99. Life's too short to spend all the time in the gym. I just like to have a few beers and enjoy myself too.

Ian Woosnam

#100. Life was too short, and far too precious, to waste.

Bella Andre