„Life is too short to read a bad book.“

„Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly“

—  Jayne Ann Krentz American novelist 1948

„Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.“

—  Don Johnson American actor and singer 1949

„Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.“

—  Annie Barrows, buch The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

„Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?“

—  Peter Greenaway British film director 1942

„It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.“

—  Carlos Ruiz Zafón, buch Der Schatten des Windes

„Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.“

—  Madonna American singer, songwriter, and actress 1958

„There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.“

—  Philip Pullman English author 1946

„If a book is well written, I always find it too short.“

—  Jane Austen, buch Sense and Sensibility

„Life is too short, and Proust is too long.“

—  Anatole France French writer 1844 - 1924

„Life's too short for chess.“

—  Henry James American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843 - 1916

„Life is too short to be little.“

—  Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881

„You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.“

—  Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991

„Life is too short to be lived badly.“

—  Marjane Satrapi Artist 1969

„Life is too short to learn German“

—  Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900

„Life's too short. Start with Dessert!“

—  Barbra Streisand American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director 1942

„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.“

—  John Burroughs American naturalist and essayist 1837 - 1921

„Life it too short to deal with crazy people.“

—  Karen E. Quinones Miller American writer 1958

„Life is too short for non-WOW projects.“

—  Tom Peters American writer on business management practices 1942

„I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.“

—  Oscar Wilde, buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray