Butterfly Quote by George Gamow

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a…

— Carl Sagan

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.

— Zeena Schreck

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

— Ellen DeGeneres

“Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their whole lives in the course of a single day.…

— Carl Sagan

Something there is more immortal even than the stars.

— Walt Whitman

The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.

— Walt Disney

Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die,…

— Hans Bethe

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this…

— Leonard Hayflick

“The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to that human…

— John K. Brown

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

— Bill Watterson

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

— A.C. Grayling

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

— George Orwell