Life Is Short Quotes

“One clear moment, one of trance
One missed step, one perfect dance
One missed shot, one and only chance
Life is all...but one fleeting glance.”
― Sanober Khan

“Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?”
― Pat Conroy

“Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“If losing Sam had taught me anything, it was to seize life-seize everything it had to offer, including the tears, the anger and loss, but most of all, the laughter and the love.
To just seize life.
Because it was fleeting and it was fickle, and no one, not me or anyone I knew, had another day, let alone another second promised to them.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Every Last Breath

“Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.

Sarah L. (Sadie) Delany”
― Amy Hill Hearth, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

“Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.”
― Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

“Life is so transient and ephemeral; we will not be here after a breath. So think better, think deeply, think with kindness, and write it with love so that it may live a little longer.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Enjoy life while you can. It can be taken in a heart beat.”
― Jasmin Morin

“Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.”
― Shirley Conran

“I’m thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.”
― Anthony Doerr, Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

“Like life is short,” he said. “Like you don’t know when it’s going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can’t ever be said.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“Life is a first impression. You get one shot at it. Make it everlasting.”
― J.R. Rim

“So have adventures. Go exploring. Drive around at midnight. Feel the wind running through your hair.
Life is so short, my darling. And there's no day like today.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.”
― Kathryn Schulz

“I am 1324512000 seconds old. In the cosmic blink of an eye, I will become once again cosmic dust.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured.”
― C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

“If something is important enough, you should try. Even if the probable outcome is failure.”
― Elon Musk

“Life is short, I wanna live it well.”
― Jon Foreman

“Life is short and beautiful, like a blooming flower.”
― Debasish Mridha

“If you have the opportunity today, please go home and tell your mother how much you love her. Do this for your mother, and do this for your new friend Eddie who cannot tell it to his mother.”
― Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

“Childhood crawls, adulthood sprints. Life isn’t short; it’s our perception of time’s passing that makes it feel fleeting. The quality of our path trumps the miles we’re given.”
― Stewart Stafford

“People pity animals for their brief lives, but our life is a bigger tragedy since it is just long enough to make us believe it is worth worrying about.”
― Sevens, Lessons From Life's End: Four Short Pieces of Parting Wisdom for a Meaningful Existence

“The Ticking Spiral by Stewart Stafford

Man - the only creature that knows it dies,
Creates structures to measure its demise.
To poke and prod with hows and whys;
Hours, seconds, melted candles of surprise.

From booming birth; to bankrupt death,
From nascent looks; to the last breath,
The torch is passed to generations yet.
To carry forth in a cycle reset.

The ticking clock of heartbeats ends,
As we say goodbye to family and friends,
To return to wherever we first transcend,
Time's ever-flowing river never bends.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“the morning dew
soon gone, beneath
our passing soles”
― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall

“Life is short. BELONG.”
― Broms The Poet, FEAST: The Second Serving: Revised, Revitalized, and Re-Realized

“That I, Lili, am vital and have a right to life I have proved by living for 14 months. It may be said that 14 months is not much, but they seem to me like a whole and happy human life.”
― Lili Elbe

“Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important that not a single moment be wasted.”
― Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

“Life is not short.
Our peace, patience and love is falling short.
Once we enhance our peace, expand our patience and accelerate on love, life becomes eternal and infinite.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Don’t let stuff ruin your day. Every day. Tell yourself before you do anything. You won’t let people or stuff ruin your day. Idiots everywhere. They won’t ruin your day. Pre-Choose. You only have so many days.”
― Richie Norton

“Life, or whoever rules over life, with either a sure or an indifferent hand, expects us to acquire both our professional and our sentimental education at the same time. This conjunction is clearly a mistake, doubtless made necessary by the brevity of life, which is not long enough for things to be done in a more leisurely, timely manner, which means that one neither acquires enough nor feels enough.”
― José Saramago, Levantado do Chão