Josh Billings Quotes

It's my life. I only got one, and it's very short. You don't get long.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Even when you're 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you're not.

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Life is short, the art long.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

The art is long, life is short.

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

Life is short, and every moment is precious.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life.

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

Man is his own worst enemy.