Quotes about Shortness

For all of us, the time is short and the span of life is brief On top of that, our real human problem, the Stoic philosopher Seneca said in a direct rebuke to the modern illusion, is not just that life is short but that we waste so much of it-so that life ceases for us "just when we are getting ready for it."35 But

I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to rule red lines. Yet I am not so indiscriminate as you think, judging me—as you judge me—from my fluency.

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.