Short Life Of Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Alexander The Great

#4. 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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Avijeet Das

#7. The probability that the Earth was created with such a perfect combination to sustain life seems almost impossible. So, in the grand scheme of the Universe, you might be one insignificant pin-prick, but with all things considered, you're also nothing short of a miracle

Becki Tedford

#8. Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dean Kamen

#9. The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights)

Warren Moore

#10. 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

#11. Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else's needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to "help" and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.

Anne Lamott

#12. The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

Alfred Adler

#13. 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

#14. take it from an old man like me, life's too short to get hung up on a little bit of barbed wire

Theresa Shea

#15. 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

#16. Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

Roger Zelazny

#17. The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

Russell Edson

#18. Don't pursue happiness!
Life is as short as a sigh.
The dust of people that were once famous
turn with the reddish clay on the wheel you are
looking at. The universe is a fata morgana;
life is a dream.

Omar Khayyam

#19. Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!

Christina Scalise

#20. Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded by the evolutionary invention of sexual reproduction came with a price - death of the individual.

Richard J. Borden

#21. If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

Louise Erdrich

#22. Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us-the pure love of Christ.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#23. You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#24. How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life
in short, without you, my life is no life.
[Written to his wife, Mileva]

Albert Einstein

#25. The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests ... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.

D.H. Lawrence

#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. Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music ... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.

Jeff Ament

#28. Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

Italo Svevo

#29. The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.

Lance Armstrong

#30. 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

#31. Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

Hans Zimmer

#32. The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

Mary Astell

#33. Life is too short to spend another moment imprisoned by the will of another.

M.K. Williams

#34. When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

Ben Nicholson

#35. 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

#36. I understood that I was clearly insane. But he apparently hadn't picked up on how many times in one short letter I asserted that I was not. This acceptance of my questionable mental health made me feel confident that we would be compatible, possibly for life. I

Augusten Burroughs

#37. My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection - life is too short not have fun!

Liz Goldwyn

#38. I am 1324512000 seconds old. In the cosmic blink of an eye, I will become once again cosmic dust.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#39. When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

Debra Winger

#40. If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#41. He had made a series of foolish decisions in his life. He had not planned well. He had not had courage when he needed it. His decisions had been short sighted. The decisions of his peers had been short sighted. These decisions had been foolish and expedient.

Dave Eggers

#42. A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream, which meant it as now an hour-and-a-half commute via the 7:06 Hicksville to Penn Station every morning. (Dark City Lights)

Jonathan Santlofer

#43. To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

Jeanne Moreau

#44. I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him ... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni.

Heidi R. Kling

#45. The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.

Tom Robbins

#46. To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock
in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

W.S. Gilbert

#47. Life's short. Don't be mad. It's a waste of time.

Blake Crouch

#48. People misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

Dorothy Gilman

#49. A lot of opportunities in life tend to last a short while, due to some temporary inefficiency ... For each of us, really good investment opportunities aren't going to come along too often and won't last too long, so you've got to be ready to act and have a prepared mind.

Charlie Munger

#50. Life is too short to dwell on the crappy things of the past.

Jayda Skidmore

#51. Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

Kevin Rudd

#52. Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading.

Will Eisner

#53. Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.

Marcus Aurelius

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

William Shakespeare

#55. The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

Jackie Chan

#56. 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

#57. Life is too short, so live your life to the fullest..every second of your life just treasure it..

William Shakespeare

#58. life is too short not living every second of it

Naomi Pollock

#59. If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.

Jill D. Block

#60. Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.

Dagobert D. Runes

#61. Life is short, you better make the most of it.

Paul Ryan

#62. Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

Robert Breault

#63. Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by ... not paying attention?

Joshua Foer

#64. No, i'm not. Life is short. We gotta make the most of it.

M. Leighton

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

Charles Spurgeon

#66. True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,
or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Some
can breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhale
and for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life.

Milissa R. Bailey

#67. If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#68. Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the short story, "Charity".)

Charles Baxter

#69. It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

Seneca.

#70. One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.
In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#71. Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.

Dan Wells

#72. Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do.

Travis J. Dahnke

#73. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change.

George Carlin

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

Woody Allen

#75. All of us, from cradle to grave, are happiest when life is organized as a series of excursions, long or short, from the secure base provided by our attachment figures.

Anonymous

#76. 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

#77. Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore.

Albert Einstein

#78. 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

#79. I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.

Nikki Rowe

#80. Life is short. Eat dessert first
-Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink And The Meaning Of Life

Wendy Mass

#81. Life is short, nature is hostile, and man is ridiculous; but oddly enough most misfortunes have their compensations, and with a certain humour and a good deal of horse-sense one can make a fairly good job of what is after all a matter of very small consequence.

W. Somerset Maugham

#82. The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#83. In short, there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss.

G.K. Chesterton

#84. Life is a gift that must be given back and joy should arise from its possession. It's too damn short and that's a fact. Hard to accept this earthly procession to final darkness is a journey done, circle completed, work of art sublime, a sweet melodic rhyme. A battle won.

Dean Koontz

#85. Managing your emotions doesn't mean you don't express yourself; it means you stop short of hurting others and sabotaging yourself.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#86. Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

Aesop

#87. 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

#88. To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was a great strain on our nerves. The props of life seem to be crumbling fast.

E.B. White

#89. Life ... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.

Cecelia Ahern

#90. Life is short, so don't waste any of it carrying around a load of bitterness. It only sours your life, and the world won't pay any attention anyway.

Pat Dye

#91. What is there to forgive? ... Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.

Jasper Fforde

#92. 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

#93. Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Gwen Stefani

#94. Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!

Robert Browning

#95. In short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.

Charles Dickens

#96. 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

#97. The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

Graydon Carter

#98. Being thankful for life itself is a way of making life better. When we look away from our problems, even for a short time, and generate joy in our hearts, we find that the world seems to change a bit.

John Harricharan

#99. Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

Martial

#100. 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