“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
“Life is short, short, brother!
Ain't it the truth?”
"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 <br class="br">Context: Life is short, short, brother!<br>Ain't it the truth?<br>And there is no other<br>Ain't it the truth?<br>You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth!<br>Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?
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Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan
The First Part, Chapter 13, p. 62.
Leviathan (1651)
Variant: And the life of man solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Coningsby, or, The New Generation
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
Henry James Byron, Our Boys (1875), Act I
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“Art is long, life is short.”
Ars longa, vita brevis.
Horace (-65–-8 BC) Roman lyric poet
Seneca's (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1) Latin translation of the Greek by Hippocrates.
Misattributed
“How short life is for fools.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
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