As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that…

Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form…

— Protagoras

About the gods I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist or what they are to…

— Protagoras

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.

— Protagoras

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

— Dillon Burroughs

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

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of…

— Marcus Aurelius

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

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

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

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

Life is long if you know how to use it.

— Anonymous

“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