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title: "8 Short Lives Quotes by 8 authors"
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> [Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/photos-are-profound-because-they-have-such-short-lives-they-are-more/)

[Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f59/tom-waits-916_corpses_photos-are-profound-because-they-have-su_118825.jpg)

> [“(the past sucks and the future can be outright paralyzing, but we must push through those times and find what little happy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-past-sucks-and-the-future-can-be-outright-paralyzing-but-we-must/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/emilio-155121_deaths_the-past-sucks-and-the-future-can-be-out_224162.jpg)

> [“Only those of us live for centuries that decided not to live in their short lives.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-moonzajer/only-those-of-us-live-for-centuries-that-decided-not-to-live-in-their/)

[M.F. Moonzajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-moonzajer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/248/m-f-moonzajer-244_centuries_only-those-of-us-live-for-centuries-that_288152.jpg)

> [Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/democracies-have-been-found-incompatible-with-personal-security-or/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a99/james-madison-373_contention_democracies-have-been-found-incompatible_381663.png)

> [“It's not about keeping up the population, it's about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-marion/it-s-not-about-keeping-up-the-population-it-s-about-passing-on-who-we/)

[Isaac Marion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-marion/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2db/isaac-marion-1033_life_it-s-not-about-keeping-up-the-population_1549150.jpg)

> [But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lope-de-vega/but-life-is-short-while-one-lives-everything-is-lacking-when-one-is/)

[Lope de Vega](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lope-de-vega/)

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> [“Well perhaps you humans do have short lives but you do so much with them. Always jumping around, always so hasty and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jordan/well-perhaps-you-humans-do-have-short-lives-but-you-do-so-much-with/)

[Robert Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jordan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4c/robert-jordan-438_life_well-perhaps-you-humans-do-have-short-li_2955069.jpg)

> [“The problem as he saw it was not how short our lives are, but rather how badly most of us use what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-warburton/the-problem-as-he-saw-it-was-not-how-short-our-lives-are-but-rather/)

[Nigel Warburton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-warburton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e77/nigel-warburton-32473_time_the-problem-as-he-saw-it-was-not-how-sho_3029698.jpg)

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