The vistas of possibility are only limited by 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

“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

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

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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 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

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

— Dillon Burroughs

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

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“The shortness of life makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.” —ELIZABETH WURTZEL”

— Anonymous

“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even…

— Robert Harris

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

— Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

— Protagoras