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title: "15 Shortness Life Quotes by 13 authors"
description: "Browse 15 Shortness Life quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Shortness Life sayings and thoughts."
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> [The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luc-de-clapiers/the-shortness-of-life-cannot-dissuade-us-from-its-pleasures-nor/)

[Luc de Clapiers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luc-de-clapiers/)

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> [The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-chretien-de-lamoignon-de-malesherbes/the-thought-of-eternity-consoles-for-the-shortness-of-life/)

[Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-chretien-de-lamoignon-de-malesherbes/)

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> [The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/the-vistas-of-possibility-are-only-limited-by-the-shortness-of-life/)

[Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/)

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> [“The shortness of life makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.” —ELIZABETH WURTZEL”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-shortness-of-life-makes-everything-seem-pointless-when-i-think-2/)

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

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> [No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abu-ammaar-yasir-qadhi/no-one-who-appreciates-the-shortness-of-this-life-and-the-eternality/)

[Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abu-ammaar-yasir-qadhi/)

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> [“The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/the-shortness-of-life-i-keep-saying-makes-everything-seem-pointless/)

[Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/)

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> [When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dillon-burroughs/when-we-realize-the-shortness-of-life-we-begin-to-see-the-importance/)

[Dillon Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dillon-burroughs/)

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> [The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/the-shortness-of-life-so-often-lamented-may-be-the-best-thing-about-it/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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> [“Perhaps nothing is more common than to bewail the shortness of life, unless it is to mispend the little time we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thelwall/perhaps-nothing-is-more-common-than-to-bewail-the-shortness-of-life/)

[John Thelwall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thelwall/)

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> [Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-addison/though-we-seem-grieved-at-the-shortness-of-life-in-general-we-are/)

[Joseph Addison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-addison/)

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> [So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyndon-b-johnson/so-far-are-we-generally-from-thinking-what-we-often-say-of-the/)

[Lyndon B. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyndon-b-johnson/)

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> [The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/the-shortness-of-life-i-keep-saying-makes-everything-seem-pointless-2/)

[Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/)

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> [“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harris/nature-has-granted-man-no-better-gift-than-the-shortness-of-life-the/)

[Robert Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harris/)

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> [The shortness of life, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/the-shortness-of-life-makes-everything-seem-pointless-when-i-think/)

[Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/)

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> [Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-elder/nature-has-given-man-no-better-thing-than-shortness-of-life/)

[Pliny the Elder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-elder/)

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