Quotes on Shortness Of Life

the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

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