Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.

Stop and consider! life is but a day

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

We pass through this world but once.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.