Source: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
“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 waste time on books that end badly”
Source: Running Hot
“Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.”
“Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.”
“What is liberal education,” p. 6
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”
http://www.last.fm/user/helena_wanje.
“Life is too short, and Proust is too long.”
Apparently an invention by Maurice Sachs; see discussion in Quotes about Proust.
Misattributed
“Life is too short to be little.”
Source: Coningsby, or, The New Generation
Henry James Byron, Our Boys (1875), Act I
Misattributed
“Life's too short. Start with Dessert!”
