Top 200 Life Is Short Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

52. “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

— Seneca

53. “Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”

— Seneca

54. “Life is so short, so beautiful. Don’t be so serious about work. Enjoy life.”

— Jack Ma

55. “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

— Michael Jackson

56. “Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

57. “No matter how busy you are, or how busy you think you are, the work will always be there tomorrow, but your friends might not be.”

— Anonymous

58. “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”

— Paulo Coelho

59. “If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?”

— Ray Lewis

60. “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

61. “Don’t take life too seriously.”

— RuPaul

62. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

— William Penn

63. “Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.”

— John Wooden

64. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

— Omar Khayyam

65. “If you don’t act on life, life will act on you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

66. “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

— Charles Bukowski

67. “Listen to your heart. It knows everything.”

— Paulo Coelho

68. “Live a life worth remembering.”

— Bruce Lee

69. “Don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.”

— Bill Hicks

70. “This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.”

— Maya Angelou

71. “I don’t live to work; I work to live.”

— Noel Gallagher

72. “Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”

— Dale Carnegie

73. “You can’t be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live.”

— Chester Bennington

74. “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

— Emily Dickinson

75. “Don’t LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

76. “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”

— James Dean

77. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

— Elbert Hubbard

78. “Money can’t buy life.”

— Bob Marley

79. “Only do what your heart tells you.”

— Princess Diana

80. “Do something worth remembering.”

— Elvis Presley

81. “I’m gonna live till I die.”

— Frank Sinatra

82. “My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”

— Steve Jobs

83. “It’s so important to do something every day that will make you happy.”

— Bob Ross

84. “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.”

— Tim Ferriss

85. “If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.”

— Billy Joel

86. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

— Ray Bradbury

87. “Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.”

— Marianne Williamson

88. “Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.”

— Benjamin Franklin

89. “Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

90. “If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.”

— Katharine Hepburn

91. “You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it.”

— Charles Bukowski

92. “It’s just a ride.”

— Bill Hicks

93. “It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

— Seneca the Younger

94. “Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

— Omar Khayyam

95. “Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it.”

— Mandy Hale

96. “You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”

— Jojo Moyes

97. “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

— Mark Twain

98. “As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!”

— Louise Hay

99. “Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

— Benjamin Franklin

100. “Don’t ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!”

— Russell Simmons