Short Life Quotes

Life is shockingly short; I don't want to waste that many days.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

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

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.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

It is far better to live like a tiger for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

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.

Life is short and so is money.

It's all about playing. Your career's short enough as it is.

I still find each day too short.

I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

Life is short, the art long.

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

Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

The part of life which we really live is short.

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

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.