„Life is too short, and Proust is too long.“
— Anatole France French writer 1844 - 1924
Apparently an invention by Maurice Sachs; see discussion in Quotes about Proust.
Misattributed
William Shakespeare688
English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616Related quotes
„Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.“
— Hugh Hefner American businessman and magazine publisher 1926 - 2017
„Life is too short to spend too long at work and also to waste your time while in the workplace.“
— Nigel Cumberland British author and leadership coach 1967
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Managing Teams in a Week (2013) https://books.google.ae/books?idqZjO9_ov74EC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIIDAB#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (2014) https://books.google.ae/books?id4S7vAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIJjAC#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, p.36
„Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.“
— Paulo Coelho, book Eleven Minutes
Variant: Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Source: Eleven Minutes
„Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.“
— Madonna American singer, songwriter, and actress 1958
http://www.last.fm/user/helena_wanje.
„Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".“
— Dale Carnegie, book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
„Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.“
— Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher 1788 - 1860
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
„Life's too short for chess.“
— Henry James American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843 - 1916
Henry James Byron, Our Boys (1875), Act I
Misattributed
„Life is too short to be little.“
— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881
Source: Coningsby, or, The New Generation
„Art is long, life is short.“
— Horace Roman lyric poet -65 - -8 BC
Seneca's (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1) Latin translation of the Greek by Hippocrates.
Misattributed
Original: (la) Ars longa, vita brevis.
„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)
„Life's too short. Start with Dessert!“
— Barbra Streisand American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director 1942
„Life is too short to be lived badly.“
— Marjane Satrapi Artist 1969
Source: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
„Art indeed is long, but life is short.“
— Andrew Marvell English metaphysical poet and politician 1621 - 1678
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 short, and wisdom long to learn.“
— Cassandra Clare, book Lady Midnight
Source: Lady Midnight
„I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.“
— W. Somerset Maugham British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874 - 1965
"1941", p. 336
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
„Life was too short for anything but amusement at the human race.“
— Poul Anderson, book The Enemy Stars
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 5 (p. 38)
