“The days are long, but the years are short.”
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
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
“Life is short, but the years are long.”
Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)
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“The years are too short, the days are too long.”
Joseph Heller book Something Happened
Something Happened (1974)
“Art is long, life is short.”
Ars longa, vita brevis.
Horace (-65–-8 BC) Roman lyric poet
Seneca's (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1) Latin translation of the Greek by Hippocrates.
Misattributed
“Art indeed is long, but life is short.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) English metaphysical poet and politician
Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649), last line
Variant: "Art is long, and time is fleeting." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life (1839).
“After a very long year we've got a very short knight.”
David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
On the knighthood of the rather short Sir Robert Muldoon in January 1984. Lange repeated the quote on U.S. television as an explanation of Sir Robert's dislike for him.
Source: Heinemann Dictionary of New Zealand Quotations (1988), p. 397.
“Life is too short, and Proust is too long.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Apparently an invention by Maurice Sachs; see discussion in Quotes about Proust.
Misattributed
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 124
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave