“Life is short, and wisdom long to learn.”
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“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
“Life is short, but the years are long.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Methuselah's Children
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)
“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).
“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
“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
“Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Die Kunst ist lang, das Leben kurz, das Urteil schwierig, die Gelegenheit flüchtig.
Bk. VII, Ch. 9
Cf. Hippocrates, Ars longa vita brevis, Aphorisms 1:1
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)
“Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym