Short Life Quotes

“I think the purest of souls, those with the most fragile of hearts, must be meant for a short life. They can't be tethered or held in your palm.

Just like a sparrow, they light on your porch. Their song might be brief, but how greedy would we be to ask for more? No, you cannot keep a sparrow. You can only hope that as they fly away, they take a little bit of you with them.”
― Emm Cole, The Short Life of Sparrows

“Those that burn short burn bright. The shortest lives can cast the longest shadows.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“I hope you learn how to slow down and not let your life pass you by while you're watching the idiot box. Life's short, and one day you'll wake up and look in the mirror and realize you look like King Tut.”
― K. Martin Beckner

“The truth is, it is the younger inexperience gangsters who often cut down the older original gangsters. The best way for this young thug to prove himself to others, is to simply cut down an established gangster.
Thus, this cruel cycle of senseless violence repeats itself, with the younger being more vicious and rootless than his predecessor. It’s the dog, who kills the lion, and once he has killed the lion, he’s no longer a dog; he’s now a lion himself.”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“Life is too short not to believe in something.”
― Isabella Irini Poretsis

“Awake to the Name

To be born in a human body is rare,
Don’t throw away the reward of your past good
deeds.
Life passes in an instant – the leaf doesn’t go back to
the branch.
The ocean of rebirth sweeps up all beings hard,
Pulls them into its cold-running, fierce, implacable
currents.
Giridhara, your name is the raft, the one safe-passage
over.
Take me quickly.
All the awake ones travel with Mira, singing the
name.
She says with them: Get up, stop sleeping – the days
of a life are short.

”
― Mīrābāī, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems

“Her short path through life had been written and it was not her right to know the meaning, only the outcome.”
― Stuart Land, Primal Daughters

“Zu den herrlichsten Schätzen, die durch die Bemühungen anderer aus der Finsternis ans Licht gezogen sind, werden wir geführt; kein Zeitalter ist uns verschlossen, zu allen haben wir Zutritt [...]

Die Zusammenfassung aller Zeiten macht ihm [/ihr] das Leben lang.”
― Seneca, Vom glückseligen Leben / Von der Kürze des Lebens

“Life may be short but who said it had to be long to be worthwhile?”
― Roxcy Joy Afable

“Run! Life's too short to walk. Unless you don't know where you're running to, then move very slowly.”
― Neil A. Hogan

“मुख्तसर सी जिंदगी है जीने के लिए, जाने लॉग लाते काहा से है वक़्त नफ़रत करने के लिए”
― Honeya