Life Is Short Quotes - Page 13

• Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

  Shania Twain

  Funny, Life, Reality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Life Is, Hungry

  7 Copy quote

• Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

  Henry Rollins

  Average, Fleeting, Might

  Source: www.pmakid.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

  Richard Baxter

  Teaching, Soul, Dull

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.122

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.

  Diane Keaton

  People, Life Is, Remarkable

  Source: variety.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wealth, Enjoy

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.208

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Men, Circles, True Life

  4 Copy quote

• You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.

  Arthur Ashe

  Strong, Sorry, Steps

  5 Copy quote

• As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

  Beth Ditto

  Flying, Doe, World

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration. Life is short. I guess I'm lined up for a reason.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Funny, Life, Men

  16 Copy quote

• A useless life is an early death.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1786.

  75 Copy quote

  Show source

• Busy, curious, thirsty fly,
  Drink with me and drink as I!
  Freely welcome to my cup,
  Could'st thou sip and sip it up;
  Make the most of life you may;
  Life is short and wears away.

  William Oldys

  May, Cups, Welcome

  William Oldys, “An Anacreontick”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Drama, Writing, Cutting

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is short, I have no time for drama.

  Caroline Manzo

  Drama, Life Is

  7 Copy quote

• Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Perfect, Parables

  21 Copy quote

• Life is short, but art lives forever.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Forever, Life Is

  8 Copy quote

• You never know, life is short but it’s wide

  Wendy Mass

  Life Is, Knows, Wide

  16 Copy quote

• You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

  George Clooney

  Reality, Periods, Mark

  14 Copy quote

• But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

  Lope de Vega

  Life Is, Lacking, Superfluous

  "La Dorotea". Book by Lope de Vega, 1632.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is short.
  But desire, desire is long.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Long, Desire, Life Is

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Of Gravity & Angels”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Book, Reading

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.23, Publishdrive

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art indeed is long, but life is short.

  Andrew Marvell

  Art, Long, Life Is

  Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.29, Pearson Education

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

  Robert Doisneau

  Kissing, Forgiving, Life Is

  61 Copy quote

• Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do.

  Mark Martin

  Life Is, Stills

  4 Copy quote

• Life is short, so don't waste any of it carrying around a load of bitterness. It only sours your life, and the world won't pay any attention anyway.

  Pat Dye

  Attention, World, Pay

  39 Copy quote