Quotes of: Life-is-too-short Keyword

I did, of course, on both counts, and started going out with the boy I lost my virginity to - all of it. He lost his to me too, except that neither of us felt we had lost anything - just discovered the meaning of life and love and everything else unn...

This is Not My Beautiful Life: Love, Happiness and Other Great Expectations

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled...

Possession

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

The Complete Short Stories

In this cage, behind these bars, I think of you and me.

Caged View: A Collection of Urban Fantasy Short Stories

Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls.

Harables: Short Stories 1

...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...

Collected Short Stories: Volume 1

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

Jung: A Very Short Introduction

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).

A Short History of Nearly Everything

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.

A Short Stay in Hell

I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

The Necklace and Other Short Stories

Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for alone he kept the prefix summus.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

Short Shorts

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

The Short Stories

He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name. His name was Jimmy.

The Other Side: a Collection of Short Stories

Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket

Family Man - A Short Story of Murder

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Sydney J. Harris