Johan Huizinga Quotes

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

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

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

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

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

In the long run we are all dead.

Time is long but life is short.

We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

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.

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

Mortality defines the human condition.

Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.

There is no more final end than death.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.