Quotes tagged ‘Life Is Short’

“My point is that we should try and live in the moment because we don't have long. So, if you love someone, you should tell 'em that you love 'em. Tell 'em now. Because it might be too late.”

— Mawaan Rizwan, Laurie Nunn, Kyle, Jojo Macari, imdb.com

“If you don't go for things, if you don't throw yourself into a situation, then you might never know what might have been. Life is short.”

— Amy Winehouse, imdb.com

“Life is short. Drive fast and leave a sexy corpse. That's one of my mottos.”

— Daniel Chun, Stanley Hudson, Leslie David Baker, imdb.com

“We don't have a lot of time on this Earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way! Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements!”

— Mike Judge, Peter Gibbons, Ron Livingston, imdb.com

“I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be.”

— Mike Judge, Peter Gibbons, Ron Livingston, imdb.com

“Our lives are brief. That's why it's important to search for meaning. We find it in our daughter's smile, in the warmth of our friends, or the comfort of our faith. Then, there are those who make their lives meaningful by making a great sacrifice.”

— Annie Weisman, Marc Cherry, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com

“Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; "for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost" is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.”

— Antonin Scalia, law.cornell.edu

“Life's too short not to forgive.”

— Miranda Kenneally, amazon.com

“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero, books.google.com

“Don't wait. Life goes faster than you think.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die.”

— Seneca, amazon.com

“Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself.”

— Seneca, amazon.com

“People are delighted to accept pensions and gratuities, for which they hire out their labour or their support or their services. But nobody works out the value of time: men use it lavishly as if it cost nothing. But if death threatens these same people, you will see them praying to their doctors; if…”

— Seneca, amazon.com

“So you must match time’s swiftness with your speed in using it, and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow.”

— Seneca, amazon.com

“All things that are still to come lie in uncertainty; live straightway!”

— Seneca, amazon.com

“And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long – he has existed long.”

— Seneca, amazon.com

“Can anything be more idiotic than certain people who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves officiously preoccupied in order to improve their lives; they spend their lives in organizing their lives. They direct their purposes with an eye to a distant future. But putting things off is the big…”

— Seneca, amazon.com

“As far as I am concerned, I know that I have lost not wealth but distractions. The body’s needs are few: it wants to be free from cold, to banish hunger and thirst with nourishment; if we long for anything more we are exerting ourselves to serve our vices, not our needs.”

— Seneca, amazon.com

“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

— Seneca, amazon.com

“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perha…”

— Seneca, amazon.com