Martha Gellhorn Quotes

Life is short, but the years are long.

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

Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given.

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

I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."

Why is youth so short and age so long?

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

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

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

Stop and consider! life is but a day

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

Life is long. But it goes fast.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

Those that God loves, do not live long.