A Quote by Publilius Syrus

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

Publilius Syrus

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Ills Life Life Is Life Is Short Long Make Seem Short

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.

Paulo Coelho

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

Eugene Ormandy

In some ways, it's easier to go from short form to long form than vice versa. I used to make 30 second 'movies,' and I think if I only did long form I would find it difficult to adjust to that short a length. 'I gotta say something in 30 seconds. Forget about it!' There have been directors who have done commercials over the years, but they seem to be the exception.

Joe Sedelmaier

Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.

Brian D. McLaren

People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.

Gary Saul Morson

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

Michel de Montaigne

Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it.

Jennifer Donnelly

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting, life is too short.... Time is the best avenger if we wait, the years speed by, and on their wings bear healing, life is too short for aught but high endeavor-too short for spite, but long enough for love. And love lives on forever and forever.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

Gene Fowler

While the days of parenting may seem so long, the years are so short.

Daniel J. Siegel

The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind can’t seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal.

Deb Caletti

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

Herodotus

Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.