Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.
Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.
Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.
It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
