Short Lives Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short… — John Phillips
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives. — Boris Becker
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
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
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
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
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
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
Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs. — Jonathan Franzen
Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as… — Terry Pratchett
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the… — Walter Scott
Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by â€¦ not paying attention? — Joshua Foer
Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern,… — Cassandra Clare
Be yourself, say what you feel, be with the one you love, and be happy. We only live short lives on this earth so while… — Nishan Panwar

Who Wrote These Short Lives Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 16 Short Lives Quotes as follows: