Top 200 Life Is Short Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success.”

— Richard Branson

152. “As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.”

— Vin Scully

153. “Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.”

— Simon Raven

154. “Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.”

— Jessica Sorensen

155. “Time waits for no one.”

— Yasutaka Tsutsui

156. “Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.”

— Milarepa

157. “Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

158. “The art is long, life is short.”

— Hippocrates

159. “Don’t take life too seriously and have fun. Don’t waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.”

— RuPaul

160. “Don’t wait for the storms of your life to pass. Learn to dance in the rain.”

— Steve Rizzo

161. “Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.”

— Stephen R. Covey

162. “Life is short. That’s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present – thoughtfully, justly.”

— Marcus Aurelius

163. “Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

164. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

— Rumi

165. “You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”

— John Green

166. “Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.”

— Henry Rollins

167. “We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.”

— Steve Almond

168. “Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.”

— Rebecca Wells

169. “You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.”

— Larry Ellison

170. “You’re already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

— Steve Jobs

171. “The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.”

— Deepak Chopra

172. “Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

173. “A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

— Lois Wyse

174. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

— Christopher McCandless

175. “Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain – and this is a chance for something special.”

— Woody Allen

176. “Time and tide wait for no man.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

177. “Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

178. “Life is short, but the years are long.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

179. “Let’s not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember “Life is too short to be little”.”

— Dale Carnegie

180. “I don’t think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What’s the worst that’s going to happen?”

— Drew Barrymore

181. “Today only happens once in a lifetime. Make the most of it.”

— Michael Ray

182. “Life is short, but art lives forever.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

183. “You never know, life is short but it’s wide.”

— Wendy Mass

184. “The Bad News Is Time Flies, The Good News Is You’re The Pilot.”

— Michael Altshuler

185. “Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.”

— Joseph Conrad

186. “Life is too short not to experiment.”

— Jamelia

187. “Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn’t appreciate and value you.”

— Sarah Dessen

188. “Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”

— Dr. Seuss

189. “Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

190. “Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn’t, the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn’t, is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.”

— Werner Erhard

191. “Life is short and love is over in the morning.”

— Ville Valo

192. “Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”

— Jim Rohn

193. “Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.”

— Woody Allen

194. “He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.”

— Dean Koontz

195. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

— Robert Breault

196. “The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

197. “Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

198. “It’s good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.”

— Rumi

199. “End your day with a smile, a happy thought, and a grateful heart.”

— Clint Walker

200. “To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”

— Bruce Lee