Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

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.

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.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Today will die tomorrow.

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

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

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.

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

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

There's a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it's not going to be there forever. That's why staying humble is important; knowing who I am and the message I'm sending out. I always try to be a person first, before I'm No. 55 on the football field.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

Everybody's human. You are only on this planet for a little bit of time.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

Everything in life is just for a while.