Miles Franklin Quotes

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Time is long but life is short.

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

Today is not forever.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Our time on Earth is so random.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.

Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.

Father Time is the enemy none of us can beat.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.

The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.