“Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?”

— Georg Büchner , Leonce and Lena

Act III
Leonce and Lena (1838)

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German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose 1813–1837

Феликс Челльберг (PewDiePie) (1989)

“To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)

“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)

“Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.”

Roger Zelazny Knight of Shadows

Source: Knight of Shadows

“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

“That has to be what love is - seeing what a mess he is and loving him anyway, because you know you're a mess, too, maybe even worse.”

David Levithan book Another Day

Source: Another Day

“Yes, I do love you, I have all the love in the world left for you, only that love seems so far away from me and so strange too, for it is as though I could almost hear it, a droning or weeping, but far, far away, and a sad lost sound, it might be either approaching or receding, I can’t tell which.”

Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. VII (*p. 200)

“We don't even love each other.
I do a bit, you know.
You do what a bit?
You know. Like you… whatever… love you a bit.
I think I kind of love you too.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“I’m totally not kidding. … Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

As quoted in "Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding" by Katrina Onstad, in The New York Times (14 July 2011)

“To be great, be whole; don't exaggerate
Or leave out any part of you,
Be complete in each thing. Put all you are
Into the least of your acts.
So too in each lake, with its lofty life,
The whole moon shines.”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada
Teu exagera ou exclui.
Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto és
No mínimo que fazes.
Assim em cada lago a lua toda
Brilha, porque alta vive.
Ricardo Reis (heteronym), Ode (14 February 1933), in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin, 2006)
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa

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