Console Quote by Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even…

— Robert Harris

“The shortness of life makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.” —ELIZABETH WURTZEL”

— Anonymous

“Perhaps nothing is more common than to bewail the shortness of life, unless it is to mispend the little time we are permitted to…

— John Thelwall

The shortness of life, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs…

— Joseph Addison

So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

— Luc de Clapiers

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

— Winston Churchill

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

— Pliny the Elder

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

— Dillon Burroughs

The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Put us in a jar, she thought. Put us in eternity.”

— Alice Hoffman

“This is why he refused to close his fist. He saw the list! What kept him from resisting? This warrant, this tabulation of your…

— Max Lucado