Shortness Quotes

• The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Life, Pain, Pleasure

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• A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

  Robert Benchley

  Birthday, Fall, Men

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Waste, Short Time

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• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Realizing, Moments, Importance

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• Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, Time, Life Is Too Short

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• the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

  William Shakespeare

  Life Is Short, Long, Shortness Of Life

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 2, l. 81

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• Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Business, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.304

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• Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

  Pliny the Elder

  Life, Nature, Men

  "Historia Naturalis", VII. 51. 3 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Life is long if you know how to use it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Use, Life Is

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• Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?

  Gerard Majella

  Giving, Support, Use

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• We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Procrastination, Acting

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• The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

  Winston Churchill

  Possibility, Vistas, Shortness Of Life

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• Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Long, Favors, Pay

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Elderly, Littles

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• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  Laura Marling

  Country, Book, Night

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

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

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

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• Today I saw cancer, cigarettes, and shortness of breath. This is why I walk to the ocean. Swim with sharks and jellyfish. I may never get this chance again. This is why if you want to kiss, you should kiss. If you want to cry, you should cry. And if you want to live, you should live. You don't have to love me. You already did.

  Ryan Ross

  Cancer, Ocean, Kissing

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• As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

  Protagoras

  Mean, Knowing, Religion

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• The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

  Winston Churchill

  Short Words

  "The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill".

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• We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Motivational, Procrastination

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• No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Soul, Lessons

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.144

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• Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Enough, Working It

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Wine, Hair

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• Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Past, Soul

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.130, Enhanced Media Publishing

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