Quotes of: Life-is-too-short Keyword

For a greedy man even his tomb is too small.

Tajikistani

If you have planted a tree you must water it too.

Tamil

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

Traditional

Vinegar that is too sour even taints the glass it's kept in.

Turkish

Benjamin Button: [Voice over; letter to his daughter] For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules ...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Man on the Train: Hey, are you a dreamer? Wiley: Yeah. Man on the Train: I haven't seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forg...

Waking Life

What appears most disquieting to me in isolation is the dilemma of how to use time. There is either too much or too little of it; we either live inside painfully contracting horizons, or feel ourselves isolated in the vastness of space. I seem to hav...

Love

Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired. Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision. Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy. Trust, even when your heart begs you...

Alysha Speer

Slavery has been outlawed in most arab countries for years now but there are villages in jordan made up entirely of descendants of runaway Saudi slaves. Abdulrahman knows he might be free, but hes still an arab. No one ever wants to be the arab - its...

Crescent

In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me, not then. He was too wounded in the head, too endlessly and terribly sad. Too funny, too explosive, too confusing. Heroes are uncomplicated. *This* m...

The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam

The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.

The Day Before 9/11

My guitar's name was Liz. As in, short for Elizabeth, Queen of England. She was a lady. Don't judge.

Declaration

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

The Denial of Death

Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.

Echopraxia

First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.

Exogenesis

a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter.

Hope Was Here

Pride and integrity are some ingredients that define respect. Don't compromise them for short lived attention.

Black Tulips

At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.

James Balog

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

Joyce Maynard

In short, you had that particular ability which I never had: the ability to be alive.

Autobiography of a Corpse

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince