Quotes About Shortness Of Time

#1. Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?

Gerard Majella

#2. Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.

Seneca.

#3. What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

William Glasser

#4. between the word and the world lie
fading eternities of soon

Laura Riding

#5. I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.

Leslie Moonves

#6. Why have I
thought the dew
Ephemeral when I
Shall rest so short a time, myself,
On earth?

Adelaide Crapsey

#7. People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays ... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].

Charles Darwin

#8. It's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.

Hunter S. Thompson

#9. Perhaps nothing is more common than to bewail the shortness of life, unless it is to mispend the little time we are permitted to enjoy.

John Thelwall

#10. I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.

Ben Roethlisberger

#11. By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal.

Hailey Giblin

#12. No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

John Ruskin

#13. Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

Claude Monet

#14. The time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long.

William Shakespeare

#15. Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

Marcus Aurelius

#16. Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.

Samuel P. Huntington

#17. O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
To spend that shortness basely were too long,
If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

William Shakespeare

#18. Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Sol Luckman

#19. No small part of the club's audience consisted of would-be comics, as well as the leading comics of the day. In fact, there were so many gagsters around that it was difficult to know who was part of the act and who was just sitting in.

Kliph Nesteroff

#20. Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

Horace

#21. Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Anthony Trollope

#22. I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Angelina Jolie