No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the…

The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

— Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

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

— Luc de Clapiers

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Winston Churchill

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

— Pliny the Elder

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

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Perhaps nothing is more common than to bewail the shortness of life, unless it is to mispend the little time we are permitted to…

— John Thelwall

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

— Dillon Burroughs

So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality.

— Frederick Lenz

They say when your bored you think a lot and I like to think.. well that's all I do.

— Darell Davis

“think I have 'gotten a handle', as you say, on being bored. At first I found the new environment to be most stimulating, but…

— John Corwin

“I said that we use digital “passbacks” to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can…

— Sherry Turkle