Limited Lifespan Quotes

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.

Nothing lasts forever in my profession.

Things may serve long, but not serve ever.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal.

I'm not immortal. I'm not unbeatable.

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

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

Time is limited. Time is not forever. How many more moons and sunrises will you see in your life rise and fall? There's not that many! It's a small amount! So, for people to be saying with this attitude "ohh, I'll get on with my life, and my greatness, sometime." No, you can't!

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

I get a little stressed even sometimes knowing all the things I want to read, I won't have enough time in this lifetime. The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.

We're only immortal for a limited time.

I don't look ahead to the future as a vast, endless one. I've begun to feel the calendar pages turning.

Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.