You've just got to be happy. Life can be very short.

How one realizes the shortness of life by the rapidity of sensations! I have only known Marguerite for two days, she has only been my mistress since yesterday, and she has already so completely absorbed my thoughts, my heart, and my life.

Life is short - it is fleeting, so you need to live your best moments and love hard.

Time is quick. Life is short.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

Life is short and there’s so much more to life than we’re ever going to know.

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

If we could be mindful of how short our time is, we might learn how precious each day is.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

Most of us spend our lives avoiding the thought of death. Instead, the inevitability of death should be continually on our minds. Understanding the shortness of life fills us with a sense of purpose and urgency to realize our goals. Training ourselves to confront and accept this reality makes it easier to manage the inevitable setbacks, separations, and crises in life. It gives us a sense of proportion, of what really matters in this brief existence of ours. Most people continually look for ways to separate themselves from others and feel superior. Instead, we must see the mortality in everyone, how it equalizes and connects us all. By becoming deeply aware of our mortality, we intensify our experience of every aspect of life.

Life is short. Why not be familiar with all of it?

Life just happens so quickly and now I have a greater appreciation for life after everything that's happened in the last five years.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.