Best Short Life Quotes

114 Short Life quotes by 103 unique authors

"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I… — Anton Chekhov
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield… — Anton Chekhov
Blame someone else and get on with your life. — Alan Woods
Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short. — Peter Charles Newman
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives. — Boris Becker
We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life. — Edith Schaeffer
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity. — Charles Spurgeon
I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything… — Everett Ruess
Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as… — John Ruskin
What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act -… — Joseph Campbell
Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and… — Martiros Saryan
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies. — Tom Waits
In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is… — John Green
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity… — Shirley Hazzard
Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of… — Robin Hobb
Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy lines. The reason… — Frederick Lenz
Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. — Frederick Lenz
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It… — Queen Elizabeth II
A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God. — Jack Black
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to… — Joshua Foer
Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our… — Caroline Knapp
Stupid religion makes stupid beliefs, stupid leaders make stupid rules, stupid environment makes stupid health, stupid companions makes stupid behaviour, stupid movies makes stupid acts,… — Michael Bassey
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. — Arthur Schopenhauer
No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives. — Winston Churchill
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand… — John Muir

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