“The world's a bubble, and the life of man
Less than a span.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
The World (1629)
“Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.”
Book i. Song 2. Compare: "Who then to frail mortality shall trust/ But limns on water, or but writes in dust", Francis Bacon, The World.
Britannia's Pastorals (1613)
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heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38 http://books.google.com/books?id=Bk8JAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Sickly%2C+calamitous+creatures+of+clay%22 <br class="br">Birds (414 BC)
“Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.”
Poul Anderson book The Broken Sword
Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 55)
“For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting.”
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Music has no limits of a life-span.”
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer
Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.
“Fronting on me will shorten your life-span.”
50 Cent (1975) American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer
I'm Supposed to Die Tonight
Song lyrics, The Massacre (2005)
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 295
Thomas Moss (minister) (1740–1808) British writer
The Beggar, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).