Short Life Quotes and Sayings
Short Life Quotes and Sayings
The following inspiration quotes are short enough to keep on your mind but still heavy enough to put a bounce in your step. Some people want “inspirational” short quotes, and still other people are looking for something to remind them of the meaninglessness of life.
Whatever type you are, the following list of quotes has something you can use to brighten your day.
In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.
Kathy Norris
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
Antonio Porchia
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
Augustus William Hare
My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant
I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
Bill Watterson
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.
Unknown
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles Schulz
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
Marion Howard
Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.
Unknown
You can’t escape history, or the needs and neuroses you’ve picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.
Charles Johnson
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson
We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.
Unknown
Life is a cement trampoline.
Howard Nordberg
To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.
Jeremy Taylor
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.
Jim Carrey
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
Havelock Ellis
Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I am with you kid. Let’s go.”
Maya Angelou
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
‘Tis all a chequer board of nights and days,
Where destiny with men for pieces plays;
Hither and thither, and mates, and slays.
Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, 1859
…the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
Life is the game that must be played.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.
Rupert Brooke
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.
Gioacchino Rossini
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot
Life was a damned muddle – a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of – everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
I count life just a stuff / To try the soul’s strength on.
Robert Browning
Life is an incurable Disease.
Abraham Cowley
The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others.
Jessi Lane Adams
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Joseph Addison
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
We’re all accidental soldiers in the army of life.
Ymber Delecto
Life is a long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.
Moroccan Proverb
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
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