Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Thirteenth Fey (p. 39)
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
Winston S. Churchill book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
Vol I; The Birth of Britain
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
As quoted in Change your Body - Is your Body Acidic or Alkaline? http://books.google.co.in/books?id=n4iZAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT44 (2014) by Monica Wright, and Matt Thom, p. 44
George Howard Earle, Jr. (1856–1928) American lawyer
From The Liberty to Trade as Buttressed by National Law (1909) by George H. Earle, Jr.
“The days are long, but the years are short.”
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
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 short, but the years are long.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Methuselah's Children
Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)
“Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be here.”
Robert Hunter (1941–2019) American musician
"Box of Rain"
Song lyrics, American Beauty (1970)
“Long-term success depends upon trust.”
Ted Malloch (1952) American businessman
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 10.