
“Life is too short, and Proust is too long.”
Apparently an invention by Maurice Sachs; see discussion in Quotes about Proust.
Misattributed
Something Happened (1974)
“Life is too short, and Proust is too long.”
Apparently an invention by Maurice Sachs; see discussion in Quotes about Proust.
Misattributed
“The days are long, but the years are short.”
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
Variant: Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Source: Eleven Minutes
“Life is too short to spend too long at work and also to waste your time while in the workplace.”
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
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
“It is too short —
the day we are born,
we commence with our dying.”
Kingfisher
Have One On Me (2010)
“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”
http://www.last.fm/user/helena_wanje.
Time Is
Undated
Source: Time Is...
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
Time is Eternity. (Music and Other Poems, 1904)
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book One, Part II: Free of Debt