Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Elizabeth Bowen

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Alexander the Great

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

Dogen

Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

Daniel J. Boorstin

If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

John Muir

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Mark Steyn

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

Theo Rossi

I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

Libba Bray

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.

Nick Tosches

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Shania Twain

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind

Tom Waits

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

Orson Scott Card

How short life is for fools.

Wilfrid Sheed

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.

Jim Elliot

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I hope you live a life you're proud of.

Henry Miller

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

Cassandra Clare

Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives...

Cassandra Clare

I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain

Jack London

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

James Dean

Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably.

Isaac Mizrahi

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.