Pliny the Elder Quotes

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

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

We pass through this world but once.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

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

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

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

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

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

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

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

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.

Life like an empty dream flits by.

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

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

Life is but a day at most.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.