Letters and Social Aims, Social Aims
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough.”
Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. Satis longa vita.
Seneca the Younger Moral Essays
De Brevitate Vitae ("On the Shortness of Life", trans. John W. Basore), Ch. 1
Moral Essays
Ali Hujwiri book Kashf ul Mahjoob
Kashf ul Mahjoob, Chapter I, Affirmation of Knowledge, p. 80
Kashf ul Mahjoob
Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist
As quoted in Alan Walker, Franz Liszt : The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (1987) Page 117.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
"Alboin Errol", in The Lost Road (1987). Compare this with "The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne" by Geoffrey Chaucer
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
“No life is short that gives a man time to slay himself.”
Vita brevis nulli superest qui tempus in illa
quaerendae sibi mortis habet.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book IV, line 478 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly”
Jayne Ann Krentz (1948) American novelist
Source: Running Hot
“Is not life a hundred times too short for us— to bore ourselves?”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm— zu langweilen?
Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter VII, 227
