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Quotes About Shortness

vomiting, shortness of breath, like they said before." "What does it cause?" "Heart palpitations and a sense of déjà vu." "Déjà vu?" "It affects the false part of the human memory or whatever. That's not all. They're not calling it the black billowing cloud anymore." "What are they calling it?" He looked at me carefully. "The airborne toxic event.
~ Don DeLillo
a vida - para além do mais que possa ser - é curta. (...) o destino é cruel e talvez não aleatório. (...) a morte ganha sempre, mas isso não quer dizer que tenhamos de lhe baixar a cabeça e a bajular.
~ Donna Tartt
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.
~ Unknown
The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long
~ William Shakespeare
Listen, life is short, even at its longest, it's short.
~ Martina Cole
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.
~ Michel Houellebecq
May his days be few; may another take his position.
~ Psalm 109:8