Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
Audre Lorde

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
Lynn Abbey

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
Lynn Abbey

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.
William Shatner

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
Hans Christian Andersen

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke

The trouble with records is that they're too short.
Mahalia Jackson

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Walter Lippmann

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
P. G. Wodehouse

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
Ben Harper

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
Hugh Hefner

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
Irvine Welsh

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
Alfred Marshall