Ani DiFranco Quotes

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Life is short, the art long.

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

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

Life is but a day at most.

Life is short and progress is slow.

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

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

Time is long but life is short.

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

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

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

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

In truth, how much time do any of us really have?

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.

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

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.