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

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

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

    'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 2, l. 81
  • When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

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

    Mean   Knowing   Religion  
  • So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.

  • 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.

    Country   Book   Night  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.

  • To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.

    Life   Wisdom   Time  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin
  • It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

    Life   Waste   Shortness  
  • 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.

    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
  • The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

  • 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.

    Use   Littles   Ill  
  • The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

    Thinking   Years   Finals  
    Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.46, Publishdrive
  • 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.

    Life   Business   Men  
    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.304
  • Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

    Life   Nature   Men  
    "Historia Naturalis", VII. 51. 3 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.
  • Life is long if you know how to use it.

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

    Life   Pain   Pleasure  
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