Life is long. But it goes fast.
The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.
I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.
The part of life which we really live is short.
Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as being prior to it or more excellent... So that from this we may perceive the causes not only of life in general... but also of longer or shorter life, of sleeping and waking, of skill, of strength and so forth.
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.
The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.
Let's be honest with one another: almost everything is too long except life, and I know people who wouldn't even concur with that exception.
Life is but a day at most.
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?
The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.
People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
I do have in the back of my head that you never know how long it lasts.
Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
