Life's Brevity Quotes

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

A lot of people are not used to having death in their lives or anything like that and I think that's not incredibly natural either. So it definitely can take its toll. At the same time I think it's important to face your own mortality, which I do most every day by doing the show, to realize that your life is short and to take the opportunities that you need to take and be fearless.

Nobody's life is perfect and in the grand scheme of things, life is short. I think it's so important to live life to its fullest and choose to smile.

Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

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

Keep your chin up, and don't go to the funeral - mine or yours or your loved one's - until the day of the funeral because then you miss the life that you have left.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

You only live once, so you got to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Life's too short. Too short to hate.

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Life is too short to hold on to the past and grudges.

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

Believe me, I go and go, 'cause I know how short life is, and I know how very blessed all of us are to be here and how very short it is.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.