Top 1200 Short-Lived Quotes & Sayings

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.

I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle.' And that brings you around to 'The Lottery.' You can't pretend - it's a lottery in which you draw a name and people die. That's a short story, but it's such an incredible short story.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

I enjoyed my time in Houston but it was short-lived and it really didn't make a huge impression on my life.

To be quite honest, the joyful relief of the publication of my book was short-lived.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.

The whole basketball world, it's a fantasy and it's short-lived.

Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.

I constantly know that showbiz is going to be short-lived, you have to grab every opportunity as well as you can.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

Rage is a short-lived fury.

In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books.

Anger is short-lived madness.

Markets may in the short-term correct. But in a bull market the correction is always sharp, swift and short-lived.

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

And I didn't. That's why my career was very short-lived.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for

I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time.

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

Being a model, you know, it's a short-lived vocation.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome.

Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.

The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.

The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor - it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don't matter absolutely.There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called Thanks for CBS.

I have never lived the way I lived during my short time with you. For the first time in my life, I’ve felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins. I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I’ve known you for a short time, but I feel like I’ve known you forever

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!

The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.

Every leaf knows that time is very short. All life must be lived before the autumn comes!