Life Is Short Quotes

Life Is Short Quotes by Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Madonna Ciccone, James Dean, Roscoe Mitchell, John Green and many others.

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, ‘I’m bored
Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.
I’ll rest when I’m dead. I’m hungry and life is short!
Remember: Life is short, break the rules
Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they’re gone.
One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.
Evelyn De Morgan
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet
Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
Love who you want to love. Life is short. Nobody’s going to hate you for it.
In the Book of Life, The answers aren’t in the back.
Art is eternal, but life is short.
Evelyn de Morgan
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.’
Life is short. Eat dessert first.
Life is short, I have no time for drama.
Caroline Manzo
Unlived dreams often show up in your body as disease. Go for the Big Wow. Life is short!
Life is too short to be miserable.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
I think life is short, and you can’t spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.
Life is short. You better get out there and do what you want to do while you can.
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don’t try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
Life is short
(You need Python)
Bruce Eckel
I’ve worked in many companies, and I think that, number one, if you are going to have a great environment, you produce great work… If people are happy, that’s what’s important. Life is short.
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Cease, cows, life is short.
Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.
the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.
Life is too short to be a boring company.
Life is too short to be living somebody else‘s dream.
Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain – and this is a chance for something special.
Life is too short to do anything that’s not challenging.
Michael Mayer
Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
If you wouldn’t live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
I’ve always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind … I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
People say that life is short, but it isn’t short. It’s very long.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.
Life is short and the art long.
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? If you don’t have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need youunknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike.
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
I am all for the short and merry life.
People always say life is short. I’ve never been convinced of that – mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
Life is short, and every moment is precious.
Your dreams are ballbusters; they’re not the yellow brick road.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
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.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
Life is short. You can’t afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don’t have time to live with things holding you back.
Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
What is one man‘s life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.
Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let’s dance.
Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.
Life is lived on the edge.
Life is short and I have some things I’d still like to do.
When writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settlevalue yourself first and this will help you to value others…life is short, so enjoy it to the fullesteveryone in the world is different, and that’s ok.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.
You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I’m there now.
Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It’s long, and it’s long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can’t rid of it.
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Life is too short to work so hard.
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
Life is short, and you have to have fun with it, you know?
Probably “I love my lifewould be something I would say out loud to the planet – just that positive affirmation. And also, “Life is short,” “Don’t take yourself so seriously,” and “Lighten the f – k up.” And if that offends you, you really need to lighten the f – k up.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
When I was younger I probably didn’t understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm‘s distance and that’s not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Life is short so go on and live it cause the chicks dig it.
Chris Cagle
class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.
Richard G. Wilkinson
Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Life is short. You die before you think you’re going to. Don’t waste it in college unless you’re doing something real. My view.
Remember… life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don’t spend them doing anything you don’t love.
Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
I still find each day too short.
As far as I’m concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did ‘The Red Violinfilm, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn’t normally do in my world.
Life is too short to do the things you don’t love doing.
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
Life is short and the nights are long, and tonight I moved on.
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
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.
Never regret anything that makes you smile.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.
I’m not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short
Life is short – while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral – indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it – the philosophy of the garden.
Life is flying by. You don’t have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.
I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life’s too short for that. I don’t really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.
Art is eternal, but life is short.
Evelyn De Morgan
Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
Life is short. Life goes fast. And what I really want to do in my life is to bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world. I try to think of that every day so that I can remember why I am coming to my studio.
Begin doing what you want to do now.
Marie Beynon Lyons Ray
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Let’s not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember “Life is too short to be little“.
Have you any old grudges you would like to pay,
Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day?
Gather them now and lay them away
When Christmas comes.
Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend,
And life is short from beginning to end;
Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend
When Christmas comes.
William Haines Lytle
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.
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
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.
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.
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.
You can not bring back the past. But you certainly can not repeat it. Life is short, even if live to ninety. Live to the fullest – that’s how I feel. Appreciate every moment, every hour, every day, because they do not blink of an eye, all over. I am absolutely sure that for most people their death comes as a surprise.
‘Be in’ is all about passion. Life is short. There are so many interesting things we can do in our life, and I feel like if someone is just kind of showing up, it’s not worth it for them or for us.
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.
Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.
I don’t want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it’s not fun to be a starving artist. But on the other hand, life is short, and if you are burning with a passion to do something, then do it. Work hard, study hard at it, and don’t give up.
Because life is short. I feel we’re made of a hunger, a desire for life – if that can be described as a material. As I get older, I’m trying to open that channel more. If you don’t, if you close off desire and get complacent, life loses its freshness and sweetness, and that’s what I crave. That’s my bliss.
Sarah Slean
Life is short, and time is swift;
Roses fade, and shadows shift.
Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
The older you get, the more you learn.
Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.
Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.
Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.
He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.
Life is short, and there’s something to be said for being true to yourself.
Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.
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
Focus. Focus. Focus…on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life’s short. You only get one shot at great.
Life is too short not to experiment.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.
Life is short. Don’t miss opportunities to spend time with the people that you love.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Life is short, so I am one of those people – and luckily my girlfriend is too – who wants to live everywhere. I don’t know how long I’ll be there, but I like it right now.
Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.
In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.
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.
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don’t waste it.
Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
Life is too short to learn German
Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you’re not enjoying it, don’t do it. Life’s too short.
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
I just don’t want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn’t do all the things I wanted to do if I had several lifetimes to do them in.
If I can get a day to myself, I won’t answer the phone, I’ll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there’s always time to do that but there isn’t. Life is short.
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Life is too short to blend in.
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Life is short..Live to the fullest.
I feel with ELP that I wasn’t making the most of my life and I wasn’t making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don’t want to do that. Life is to short.
Life is short, death is forever
Life is short and so is money.
Life is short, so there is no reason why you shouldn’t live it to the fullest expression of yourself.
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.
May you live all the days of your life.
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.’
Accomplish something every day of your life.
Life is short and you’ve got to get the most out of it.
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life – by how one lives and what he did.
I think what we’re attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can’t do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That’s why life is short and art is very long.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
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
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
I learned through his death that, hey, life is short. You think you’re going to live to be 75 years of age, and Brian proved that you’re not going to live that long.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
I remember, growing up, losing a sister, and – life is short. Make the most of your opportunities.
I don’t think my life would be significantly poorer if I don’t impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.
Life is short. Make the most of it. Put God first. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Laugh a lot. Find and live out your purpose.
Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.
Zachary Scott
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
Time is short, life is short, there’s a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven‘t got time.
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Life is short, so go for things you enjoy.
Life is short and far too fragile. Whatever you dream of doing, begin. Put a first step or a “down payment” on your schedule and make it happen. Create memories. Have fun. Have an adventure. Take a (reasonable) risk. Be audacious. Laugh out loud. See what happens.
John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
Life is short … so why waste it doing something dumb?
Life is short. Im gonna be happy with mine.
Nobody’s life is perfect and in the grand scheme of things, life is short. I think it’s so important to live life to its fullest and choose to smile.
I believe that if you don’t derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don’t come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don’t feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.
Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will never be a perfect time to pursue your dreams and goals other than right now
Life is to short to be little.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
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 short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.
Life is short.
But desire, desire is long.
Life is short, so fall in love, dear maiden, before your youthful ardor cools off, for there is no tomorrow.
Atsushi
Life is short, God’s way of encouraging a bit of focus.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we’re all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it’s going to be over, and you better make this count.
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.
Life is short. I’m years old. I’ve got years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I’ve made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.
Life is too short for a long story
What I’ve learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.
Life is too short to worry about anything
A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price
Because life is short but sweet for certain