Brevity Of Life Quotes

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  • Live life like you mean it! Stop procrastinating! Do all that you can...with all that you have...in the place that you are...right now! Life is too unpredictable to put things off and not take it seriously.

  • Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

  • Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
  • Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

  • Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

  • But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

    Life   Song   Party  
    Song: 1999 The Hits Mix
  • it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

  • The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

    Men   Long   Excellence  
  • When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

    Pain   Journey   Men  
    Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”
  • We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

  • O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

  • Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.8, Broadway Books
  • Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

  • The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

  • You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

    The Walter Hagen Story ch. 32 (1956)
  • A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

    Work   People   Mourning  
    Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”
  • It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

    Life   Death   Play  
    'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
  • Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

    Pieces   Shapes   Waste  
  • Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

  • Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
  • There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.

    Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.85, Thomas Nelson Inc
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