Life Is Short famous quotes
04-17-2025
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Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?
-- Aaron Swartz -
There is someone out there that will love you.They'll want you for you.Don't settle for less.Life is short and I'm tired of wasting it
-- Abbi Glines -
I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!
-- Al Roker -
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
-- Aldous Huxley -
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.
-- Alice Childress -
People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.
-- Alija Izetbegovic -
Life is short. Im gonna be happy with mine.
-- Allen Iverson -
Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.
-- Amanda Crew -
My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
-- Anita Baker -
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 -
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.
-- B. Alan Wallace -
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.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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 -
There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.
-- Billy Graham -
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
-- Billy Wilder -
Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
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 -
I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short
-- Charles Kennedy -
Life is short so go on and live it cause the chicks dig it.
-- Chris Cagle -
You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.
-- Chris Rock -
Unlived dreams often show up in your body as disease. Go for the Big Wow. Life is short!
-- Christiane Northrup -
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
-- Clifford Odets -
Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".
-- Dale Carnegie -
The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.
-- Deepak Chopra -
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
-- E. W. Howe -
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
-- Eric Davis -
Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.
-- Eric Greitens -
Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.
-- Evelyn De Morgan -
Remember that life is short and death is long.
-- Fritz Scholder -
Every once in a while we remember that life is short, and to appreciate the time with your friends and family, and to be open to have beautiful exciting moments in your days and stop worrying about what's pulling you down.
-- Garrett Hedlund -
We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
-- George Madison Adams -
Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
-- George Saunders -
Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.
-- Gwen Stefani -
Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
-- Helen Keller -
Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.
-- Henry Rollins -
Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.
-- Hugh Dillon -
Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.
-- Hugh Hefner -
Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.
-- Iimani David -
Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile. The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won't be found at the bottom) Don't sweat the small stuff, You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one's watching, Love as if it's all you know, Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today
-- James Dean -
Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.
-- James Howe -
Life is short. But desire, desire is long.
-- Jane Hirshfield -
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.
-- Jeff Ross -
I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.
-- Jessica Zafra -
The only certainty is that we never know what tomorrow holds. We live for today, life is short, so let's enjoy it together while we can.
-- Jinxx -
Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.
-- John Hersey -
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
-- Joseph Conrad -
Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.
-- Jostein Gaarder -
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless
-- Justin Rosenstein -
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?
-- Justin Rosenstein -
The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.
-- Karrine Steffans -
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'
-- Kate Adie -
Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.
-- Kelly Cutrone -
Life is short and the nights are long, and tonight I moved on.
-- Kesha -
Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.
-- Krista Allen -
Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas -
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
-- Larry McMurtry -
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
-- Lawren Harris -
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
-- Lois Wyse -
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.
-- Lope de Vega -
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
-- Lou Reed -
Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
-- Lucille Ball -
Life is short if you don't notice it'll pass you by, That's why my head is in the clouds trying to pass the sky.
-- Ludacris -
I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!
-- Madonna Ciccone -
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
-- Marissa Mayer -
Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do.
-- Mark Martin -
Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.
-- Meg Cabot -
Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.
-- Michael Mayer -
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.
-- Milarepa -
Life is short is what some ***** said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.
-- Nas -
Life is short. Make the most of it. Put God first. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Laugh a lot. Find and live out your purpose.
-- Nicky Gumbel -
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.
-- Nina Simone -
I just wanna live the moment and just take every moment and embrace it because life is short.
-- Nonito Donaire -
We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have.
-- Novak Djokovic -
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 -
Life is too short for us to keep important words, for example, 'I love you', locked in our hearts.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
-- Publilius Syrus
