“How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!”
"The Mariner's Cave", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 66-67]
“in this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.”
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Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.”
Source: Tuck Everlasting
“The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.”
Book X, ch. 56
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)
“For how long is it a duty to study the Law? To the day of death.”
Treatise 3: “The Study of the Torah,” Chapter 1, Section 9, H. Russell, trans. (1983), p. 52
Mishneh Torah (c. 1180)
“The days are long, but the years are short.”
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Source: " The Writing Life http://www.tikkun.org/mediagallery/download.php?mid=20090505114218282" (link is to PDF download), Tikkun magazine, Volume 3, Number 6, 1988
