Susan Glaspell Quotes

Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

Mortality defines the human condition.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Our time on Earth is so random.

To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won't be here long, so don't get too attached.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

You are permanent, but this life is not.

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

Today is the only time we can possibly live.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

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.

You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

And a man's life's no more than to say "One."

The living are just the dead on holiday

Remember that life is short and death is long.

The only certainty life contains is death.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.