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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

Stendhal

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Stendhal
French - Writer
January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

Alan Watts

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

Amber Benson

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

Woody Allen

Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. You ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize it, and ought to take it out, you ought to practice it, you ought to apply it. And most of all, you ought to rejoice in it because you have just heard how not to be wretched, miserable you any more but to be a brand new, and forever brand new man or woman.

Vernon Howard

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Seneca the Younger

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Edward Abbey

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

Franz Kafka

Life is too short to be miserable.

Rita Mae Brown

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

Moon Unit Zappa

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Rita Mae Brown

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Carolyn Hax

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.

Niccolo Paganini

When you realize how short life is, you ought to celebrate life even more.

Caroline Dhavernas

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

H. L. Mencken

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

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