Quotes About Shortness

At the end of the day, the quality of life is all we have, and it's just as important to that lobster, the quality of life that it lives - even if it's not as long - as the quality of your life.

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

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

Life is short, even for those who live a long time, and we must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

Life is short, and certainty never happens.

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

Maybe the world wasn't as good as it should be. There was cruelty in it, and suffering. And life was short--far shorter than was fair... But here and now, it was perfect. And really, there was nothing more important than that.

But since Heaven wills one life to man should fall, And this is very brief--too brief for all We think to do, why should we fret and moil, And vex ourselves with never-ending toil?

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?

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I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.

Within a very short space of time, I had to lean against the wall for support, the ground beneath my feet swaying as if I was on a boat. In fact, it was more comforting to imagine that I was.

I am all for the short and merry life.

Le temps n'a aucune réalité. Lorsqu'il vous paraît long, il est long, et lorsqu'il vous paraît court, il est court, mais de quelle longueur ou de quelle brièveté, c'est ce que personne ne sait.