Emily Dickinson Quotes

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

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

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.

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

Stop and consider! life is but a day

Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.

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

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

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

Everybody's human. You are only on this planet for a little bit of time.

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.