Short Time To Live Quotes

#1. It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Seneca.

#2. If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.

Frederick Lenz

#3. It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a lot of it.

Seneca.

#4. You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Being aware that he had but a short time to live and having neither Martian nor Kansan faith in immortality, he purposed to live each golden moment as eternity - without

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!

A.A. Patawaran

#7. A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

Elizabeth Edwards

#8. 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

#9. I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

Walter Scott

#10. Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

Zig Ziglar

#11. For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age.

Bertolt Brecht

#12. Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

Swami Vivekananda

#13. We are here for a short time, so live a life of love and kindness, which tends to live long.

Debasish Mridha

#14. A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be ... time to commune with your inner soul as you share the outdoors with the birds, animals, and fish that live there.

Fred Bear

#15. Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.

Nicole Lapin

#16. The fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#17. So before you decide you can't forgive her, ask yourself if you want to live without her. We're only here for a short time, man. Don't waste it.

K.J. Bell

#18. Some angels are too good to live their entire lives in this inferno. They come to Earth for only a short time because they have a mission.

Cristiane Serruya

#19. Life is so short, no time to spare, so choose carefully, love intensely and live blissfully.

Debasish Mridha

#20. I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.

Caroline Leavitt

#21. I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Thomas A. Edison

#22. Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.

Joel Osteen

#23. Fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

J.M. Barrie

#24. But time's too short to enjoy the moment. Shall we live in the future to allow ourselves to see what the world has to offer? To throw away the chances of now and disregared pain until yesterday?

Matt

#25. We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.

Amartya Sen

#26. In a culture where life was short, decisions had to be made in a hurry. You would never have enough time, might never live to see the consequences of a wrong action - or a correct one. On Query, it was different.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#27. Any man who has known a love bringing him such happiness--if even for a short time--that its loss steals his very will to live, is a man to be envied.

Justin in CRIMSON RAPTURE

Jennifer Horsman

#28. Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people's approval on how you live it.

Steve Maraboli

#29. Time was short, as Pietr so frequently reminded me. Maybe we all needed to live fiercely.
And love courageously.

Shannon Delany

#30. I believe that when people view the end of their life as a short time left to live and no time to waste, they open up their hearts more profoundly, knowing they have less, not more, time to live.

Linda Noble Topf

#31. Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.

Ami McKay

#32. When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

Ruskin Bond

#33. Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.

Bokar Rinpoche

#34. You Know What, Hate is Baggage, Life Is To Short To Be Pissed Off All The Time, So Let Go Of Hate And Live Your Live To The Fullest Extent

Terrin White

#35. Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

Marcus Aurelius

#36. Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?

Pat Conroy

#37. What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,
the eternal laws!

Henry David Thoreau

#38. When I want something, I go for it. Life is way too damn short to live any other way. And I want to get to know you better." Those lashes lowered one more time, his gaze tracking to my lips like they were some kind of Mecca. "Yeah, I definitely want to get to know you better.

J. Lynn

#39. As soon as something stops being fun, I think it's time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.

Richard Branson

#40. You've given me reason to really live and not just exist anymore. I don't think you realize just how much you've changed me in a very short period of time.

Maya Banks

#41. I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.

Albert Camus

#42. There was some expiration point to my life, and it became very important to maximize the time that I did have on Earth. That's what led me to my personal philosophy: "No Opportunity Wasted" - NOW for short, which is about living life to the fullest.

Phil Keoghan

#43. There's a time to live and a time to die.
The only trouble is, when would you know?
When would your mind let you freely sacrifice your life?
Life is as long or as short as you want it to be.
Or so they say.

Paul Leslie Griffiths

#44. At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.

Shaun Hick

#45. the best cure for Communist ideals is to live, even for a short time, under a Communist regime.

Rachel Roth

#46. We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.

Henry David Thoreau

#47. I live what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.

Mother Antonia