Stephen Hawking Quotes

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

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

We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

We're here for such a short period of time.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

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.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

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

Age is so immaterial. Isn't this all just the blink of an eyelash?

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

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

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.

For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.

Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

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

The part of life which we really live is short.

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