“Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.”

—  Kate DiCamillo , The Magician's Elephant

Source: The Magician's Elephant

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away." by Kate DiCamillo?
Kate DiCamillo photo
Kate DiCamillo 74
American children's writer 1964

Related quotes

Heath Ledger photo

“All of this is so insignificant. In the grand scale of things, there have been so many before who have been in this position. I'm just another one. Life is so short. It's like we're already gone, really, in retrospect.”

Heath Ledger (1979–2008) Australian actor

On fame and celebrity, as quoted in the New York Daily News, June 26, 2000.

Brian Andreas photo

“She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist
Haruki Murakami photo

“I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

Miley Cyrus photo

“Remember what things make you special and embrace those because there are so many things that aren’t on the outside that are so important and people find so beautiful.”

Miley Cyrus (1992) American actor and singer-songwriter

Inquirer.net http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20081120-173424/Miley-Cyrus-lends-voice-to-animated-film (November 20, 2008)

“So many people spend so much of their life energy "sweating the small stuff" that they completely lose touch with the magic and beauty of life.”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

Lesson 1, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all Small Stuff (1997)
Context: Often we allow ourselves to get all worked up about things that, upon closer examination, aren't really that big a deal. We focus on little problems and blow them out of proportion. … Whether we had to wait in line, listen to unfair criticism, or do the lion's share of the work, it pays enormous dividends if we learn not to worry about little things. So many people spend so much of their life energy "sweating the small stuff" that they completely lose touch with the magic and beauty of life.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge photo

“The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Don Soderquist photo

“A leader must keep his or her eye on the core customers and core business. I have seen many executives focus so much on new growth that they let the core business slip away.”

Don Soderquist (1934–2016)

Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 178.
On Leading Well

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien photo

“I wish life was not so short," he thought. "Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.”

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

Thomas Carlyle photo

“So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

Today http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/416.html (1840).
1840s

Related topics