Top 89 Very Short Life Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.
Homer
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. So it is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil.
Seneca.
#7. How short is human life! the very breath
Which frames my words accelerates my death.
Hannah More
#8. The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4."
Jackie Chan
#9. As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
Carine Roitfeld
#10. Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.
Amber Benson
#11. Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
Desmond Morris
#12. Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.
Juan Enriquez
#13. Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.
Gerard Way
#14. Consider the whole universe whereof thou art but a very little part, and the whole age of the world together, whereof but a short and very momentary portion is allotted unto thee, and all the fates and destinies together, of which how much is it that comes to thy part and share.
Marcus Aurelius
#15. Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
Howard Marion-Crawford
#16. The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.
Deepak Chopra
#17. Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse.
Julian Short
#18. 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
#20. Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
Al Lopez
#21. To be honest the future of The Life of One Kid... won't go very far... but I won't only put books/films.... and so on and so on... and some short stories I am going to put... from my darkness.
Deyth Banger
#22. Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.
Lindsey Vonn
#23. 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
#24. Life is a book. The fact that it was a short book doesn't mean it wasn't a good book. It was a very good book.
Michael Lewis
#25. Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.
Vladimir Nabokov
#26. I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.
Robert Kiyosaki
#27. When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
Mariel Hemingway
#28. Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.
Amber Benson
#29. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The
James Gleick
#30. Life is short and we're all going to die very soon
Steve Jobs
#31. There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.
Frederick Lenz
#32. Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
Stendhal
#34. I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.
Rufus Sewell
#35. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends
John Lennon
#36. Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.
Rachel Caine
#37. To be depressed is, very simply, to be stopped short in one's life.
Maggie Scarf
#38. It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.
Grace Slick
#39. The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is past - forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being's life on this earth is to attain to the Knowledge of God - all else is nothing, all else passes away as a wind passes away.
Violette Nakhjavani
#40. Death sentences are short and very, very manly. Life sentences aren't. They go on and on, all full of syntax and qualifying clauses and confusing references and getting old.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#41. I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.
Kathy Mattea
#42. 'Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short.
Lizzy Caplan
#43. In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.
Nicholas Negroponte
#44. Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes.
Frances Hardinge
#45. Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.
Charlie Munger
#46. By developing balance in your life, you will increase your energy, motivation, and your sense of satisfaction. In short, your happiness. Most people are as happy as they choose to be. May you choose to be very happy in 1998! SUCCESS to You ...
Gary Lockwood
#47. Every leaf knows that time is very short. All life must be lived before the autumn comes!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special ... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.
Winona Ryder
#49. I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
Anne Perry
#50. Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
Audre Lorde
#51. The actual lifespan of a thought is very short ... unless you believe it, trust it, or take direction from it.. Then it can last a lifetime. Be choosy. Pick the ones with which to do this.
Charles F. Glassman
#53. Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
Mike Huckabee
#55. Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else's story.
Michael Gerson
#56. I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone.
Paul Weller
#57. I don't know if it was a defining moment. I knew it as soon as I could comprehend the possibility of having a career. I knew very young I wanted to be a movie star. As much as I grew into love of the craft. As soon as I could speak I was auditioning and going to classes every day. It was my life.
Columbus Short
#58. Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin
#59. Life is very short ... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
William Merritt Chase
#60. I don't think an alien will be a blob. If aliens are out there they should have evolved just like us. They should have eyes and be walking on two legs. In short if there is any life out there then it is likely to be very similar to us.
Simon Conway Morris
#61. I am far more interested in being a beginner than in trying to become an expert. Life is difficult and complicated for everyone - but it's very, very short.
Alastair Humphreys
#62. The short story narrates the moment when a dark door, long closed, is opened, when a forgotten error is unwittingly repeated, when the fabric of a life is revealed to have been woven from frail and dubious fiber over top of something unknowable and possibly very bad.
Michael Chabon
#63. For when it pleased the Lord in Aug. 1829, to bring me really to the Scriptures, my life and walk became very different. And though even since that I have very much fallen short of what I might and ought to be, yet, by the grace of God, I have been enabled to live much nearer to Him than before. "If
George Muller
#64. Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.
Geoffrey Ballard
#65. We don't get to choose how we're born, Miranda, and very rarely how we die; but we get to choose how we live. Life is too short to spend in dread and guilt.
Dianne Sylvan
#66. life is very short, and keeping grievances takes so much energy, it's not worth it. If you don't make something positive for yourself at least, what you have is wasted, gone, and you can't get it back. One thing
Jane Marks
#67. Life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.
Paulo Coelho
#68. All the light was now coming from the East; and it looked breathtakingly new. In a very short time, everything was nationalized, from banks to factories, from pharmacies to little distilleries.
Teodor Flonta
#69. All of a sudden I pulled up short and harked back to Ridley [Scott] holding up the script in Manhattan, at the St. Regis breakfast room, and saying, "It's very visual, isn't it," and realized it was the key to my whole life since then.
William Monahan
#70. Yeah, life is complicated. But it's also very fucking short.
If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit ... the least you can do is try to forgive them.
Brian K. Vaughan
#71. Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is.
Clive Barker
#72. 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
#73. The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which reward the ambitious courage and toil of a mankind whose day is short on this earth of evil.
Joseph Conrad
#74. It's my life. I only got one, and it's very short. You don't get long.
Richard Marquand
#75. It was curious how that beetlelike type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.
George Orwell
#76. But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
Seneca.
#77. 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
#78. Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
Joseph Conrad
#79. 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
#80. Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
George Saunders
#81. In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
Bill Watterson
#82. I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.
Mackenzie Davis
#83. 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
#84. Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.
Brad Watson
#85. Well, it does make you realize that life, even at its longest, is still very short.
Kaira Rouda
#86. The very life which we enjoy is short.
[Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
Sallust
#87. We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
Paul McCartney
#88. It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
Waylon Jennings
#89. The average life expectancy for a black man in an American city is something like twenty-three very short years. The reality of that had never fully kicked in before, but it did that night. And I thought, hell, I'm at risk just walking around.
Suzanne Brockmann
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