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Quotes About Short

King Uthil says steel is the answer. I say his sight is short. Dust is the last answer to every question, now and always.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I'm in no mood for jokes, Sajaam.' 'When were you ever? But it's no joke. You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Most of my favorite stories as a reader come in at this length. Short novels are all killer, no filler. They offer the economy of the short story but the depth of characterization we associate with longer works. Little novels aren't leisurely, meandering journeys. They're drag races. You put the pedal to the floor and run your narrative right off the edge of the cliff. Live fast and leave a pretty corpse is a shitty objective for a human being but a pretty good plan for a story.
~ Joe Hill
Imagination, however high it flies, Falls short, however hard it tries. But spirits fit to see deeply invest In what is boundless a boundless trust.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it.
~ Chris Cagle
Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.
~ Diane Keaton
Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.
~ Lin Yutang
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
~ Kingsley Amis
I don't know how many times we have to be reminded that life is extremely short.
~ Asher Roth
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
~ Boris Becker
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
~ Caroline Kennedy
Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.
~ Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
Life is short. Eternity is long.
~ Bentley Little
Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
~ Djuna Barnes
Cease, cows, life is short.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
~ Herbert Read
I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!
~ Madonna Ciccone
There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
~ Mary J. Blige
Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.
~ Ruth Draper
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
~ Chris Cleave
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
~ Ben Jonson
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!
~ John Fletcher