“Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“How short life is for fools.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 8 “Plans” (p. 159).
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“in this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.”
Emily Dickinson
(1830–1886) American poet
“Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt.”
Robert A. Heinlein
(1907–1988) American science fiction author
Source: The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)
Context: Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
“Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.”
Source: Tuck Everlasting
“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“Life is short, short, brother!
Ain't it the truth?”
Yip Harburg
(1896–1981) American song lyricist
"Ain't It the Truth" originally written for Cabin in the Sky (1943), but pulled from the show, and later included in Jamaica (1957) - Lena Horne version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMSyXuvNpeM
Context: Life is short, short, brother!
Ain't it the truth?
And there is no other
Ain't it the truth?
You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth!
Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?
Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 62
“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”
Madonna
(1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
http://www.last.fm/user/helena_wanje.
“How to be a good fellow without being a fool.”
Frank Crane
(1861–1928) American Presbyterian minister
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919), A School for Living