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Quotes About Short-lived

Take comfort in this, Amber. You are only one small, short-lived creature. You'd have to be a fool to think you could change the course of the whole world." She was silent until she broke out in a shaky laugh. "Oh, Paragon, in that you are more right than you know, my friend.
~ Robin Hobb
But, like all happiness, it did not last long…
~ Louisa May Alcott
Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Gratitude is like spring blooms, fine-smelling but short-lived. I'd keep a torch burning, d'you see, somewhere it brings to mind cities aflame. Make sure they stay grateful.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Life's but a day at most.
~ George Burns
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
~ Walter Scott
Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.
~ Peter Charles Newman
It could have lived so much longer.
~ E. Lockhart
Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
~ Dan DeCarlo
You're beautiful, like a May fly.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Everything is finite, right? Nothing can last forever.
~ Joe Russo
William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his physical frailties.
~ Robert Dallek
Gratitude's got a short half-life, Clarice.
~ Thomas Harris
Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.
~ William Browne
Ylimielisyys on lyhytikäinen elätti.
~ Antti Tuuri
I get bored very quickly.
~ Tricky
Good things only can last so long.
~ Paul Pierce
One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.
~ Bam Margera
I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.
~ Cissy Houston
But this effervescence was frenetic and likely to vanish in an instant;
~ Anne Rice
So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.
~ John Kasich
I shall not live much longer than did Keats.
~ Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
I constantly know that showbiz is going to be short-lived, you have to grab every opportunity as well as you can.
~ Gemma Collins
Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld