Shortness Quotes

Shortness Quote of the day

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?

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

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

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

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

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.

It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

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