Life Being Short Quotes

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

The only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I’ve been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don’t live that long. It doesn’t matter.

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

I still find each day too short.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

May you live all the days of your life.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.