Life Quote by Elizabeth Smart

The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades,…

— Horace

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of…

— Horace

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

— Emily Haines

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

— Lev Grossman

We're only immortal for a limited time.

— Neil Peart

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here…

— Al Stewart

How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world. As the…

— Henry David Thoreau

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into…

— Anne Carson

Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life's too short to stay where we are.

— Mat Kearney