Quotes About Shortness

You begin to know that life is transient, and even at its longest, far too short.

We shouldn't think for a moment that just because their lives are short they shouldn't be here.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

Humans had a genius for devising instruments of death. Their lives were so short and they seemed to value them so little, sending waves of men to clash in battlefields, then weighing victory by the piled corpses. And if they held their own lives so worthless, the lives of everything else were as fruit to pluck from trees.

Alas, Art is long, and Life short!

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to rule red lines. Yet I am not so indiscriminate as you think, judging me—as you judge me—from my fluency.

It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waters swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

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 in letter. (Vie, c'est court, Même en lettre)

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.

We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.

Life is so short. Forgetting is so long

Even when months and days are long, life is short.

Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.

Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

Å»ycie, cho?by i dÅ'ugie, zawsze bÄ™dzie krótkie.

Life is short, the art long.

Vita brevis, ars longa, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.

Father Mike was popular with the church widows. They liked to crowd around him, offering him cookies and bathing in his beatific essence. Part of this essence came from Father Mike's perfect contentment at being five foot four. His shortness had a charitable aspect to it, as though he had given away his height.

The implied premise of this passage is that life must be everlasting to be meaningful, but there is no obvious reason for thinking that. Why not draw the opposite conclusion—that the fact that life is short is our motivation for filling it with meaning? If we are keenly aware of "time's wingéd chariot,

Nada há mais feio que dar pernas longuíssimas a ideias brevíssimas.