“Life is short, short, brother!
Ain't it the truth?”

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Source: The Runaway Jury

The First Part, Chapter 13, p. 62.
Leviathan (1651)
Variant: And the life of man solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.
Context: Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: Coningsby, or, The New Generation

Source: Damned

Henry James Byron, Our Boys (1875), Act I
Misattributed

Seneca's (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1) Latin translation of the Greek by Hippocrates.
Misattributed

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 8 “Plans” (p. 159).