Short Life Quotes - Page 7

• Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.

  Martiros Saryan

  Beautiful, Men, Islands

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• I hope you live a life you're proud of...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tough Times, Proud, Buttons

  "Fictional character: Benjamin Button". "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", 2008.

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• Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

  Tom Waits

  Rain, Profound, Puddles

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that transcends and survives all manner of suffering. As the poet wrote in the Bible's Song of Solomon, 'Love is strong as death.' Or perhaps even stronger.

  John Green

  Love, Song, Strong

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• Life can only be understood backwards.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Moving Forward, Reflection, Endless Journey

  "Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Inspirational, Children, Real

  Shirley Hazzard (2003). “The Bay of Noon: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

  Robin Hobb

  Past, Feelings, Events

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• I still find each day too short.

  John Burroughs

  Thinking Of You, Retirement, Life Is Too Short

  John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things.

  Archie Panjabi

  New York, Grateful, Cutting

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• Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

  Candice Bergen

  Love, Life, Dream

  Candice Bergen (2014). “Knock Wood”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

  Homer

  Life, Immortality, Very Short Life

  Homer (1963). “The Iliad”

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, New Year, Hope

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• Why should it be thought incredible that the same soul should inhabit in succession an indefinite number of moral bodies? Even during this one life our bodies are perpetually changing, through a process of decay and restoration; which is so gradual that it escapes our notice. Every human being thus dwells successively in many bodies, even during one short life.

  Francis Bowen

  Numbers, Soul, Restoration

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• Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
  Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
  A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
  And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

  Emily Bronte

  Hope, Night, Tyrants

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.109, The Floating Press

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• A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Fats, Persons

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• ...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

  Jonathan Waterman

  Sweet, Inspirational Life, Passion

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• Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Wise, Men

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• "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Years, Half

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• I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Ocean, Men

  Anton Chekhov (2011). “Forty Stories”, p.11, Vintage

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• Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

  Peter Charles Newman

  Life, Draining, Exhausting

  Peter Charles Newman (1975). “The Canadian Establishment”

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• Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Life is too short to worry about anything

  Eric Davis

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Meaningless Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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