“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Whether you feel that your soul is pleased by the conception or contemplation of harmonies, or that your mind is stimulated by… — RosettaBooks Copy Share Image
“But mortification - literally, "making death" - is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count. — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. — Protagoras Copy Share Image
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life. — Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes Copy Share Image
“Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The shortness of life, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Carpe Diem By Edna Stewart Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman did it, why can't I? The words of Horace, his laconic phrase.… — Edna Stewart Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing is more common than to bewail the shortness of life, unless it is to mispend the little time we are… — John Thelwall Copy Share Image
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
