Quotes About Shortness

From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?

La vida es demasiado corta como para ponerle los grilletes y la bola de un corazón rencoroso.

I feel I should say it as urgently as if I were standing in the room with you. That life – whatever else it is – is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway:

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

Life was too short, the weather too fine, and the world too full of interesting and exciting pitfalls.

I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short.

Theo wondered if those people who were destined to die young had some kind of premonition of the shortness of the hours and that gave their life an intensity, a seriousness like a shadow.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

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.

The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.

Life is simple and short but love is infinite and eternal. So give it away, as much as you can, without judging anyone.

Piangere è una piccola cosa - cosa tanto breve un sospiro. Ma cose di tale grandezza uccidono uomini e donne.

It is always hard to be tough when you have to look up to see someone's eyes. But I've been short all my life, and practice makes perfect.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

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

I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

The part of life which we really live is short.