„Life's short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes.“
— Horace, buch Odes
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam.
Book I, ode iv, line 15
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
„Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.“
Quelle: The Funny Thing Is...
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„Barren are the years behind me. This is the first day of my span, here is the threshold of my life.“
Steriles transmisimus annos:
haec aevi mihi prima dies, hic limina vitae.
— Statius, Silvae
ii, line 12
Silvae, Book IV
„Fronting on me will shorten your life-span.“
— 50 Cent American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer 1975
I'm Supposed to Die Tonight
Song lyrics, The Massacre (2005)
„You kill, with a single gas canister, an average of five hundred criminals per day!“
— Luiz Carlos Alborghetti Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure 1945 - 2009
Original: (pt) Você mata, com um botijão de gás, uma média de 500 bandidos por dia!
Original: (pt) Source: [9 December 2009, Morre Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, dono do bordão 'bandido bom é bandido morto', https://extra.globo.com/tv-e-lazer/morre-luiz-carlos-alborghetti-dono-do-bordao-bandido-bom-bandido-morto-209786.html, Portuguese, Extra, Editora Globo S/A, 31 March 2019]
— Ulric Neisser American psychologist 1928 - 2012
Quelle: Cognitive Psychology, 1967, p. 42 ; As cited in: A.H.C. Van der Heijden, "Visual attention," in: Handbook of Perception and Action, Vol. 3. 1996
— Frederick William Robertson British writer and theologian 1816 - 1853
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 175.
„Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.“
— William Browne English poet 1590 - 1645
Book i. Song 2. Compare: "Who then to frail mortality shall trust/ But limns on water, or but writes in dust", Francis Bacon, The World.
Britannia's Pastorals (1613)
„Music has no limits of a life-span.“
— Nadine Gordimer South african Nobel-winning writer 1923 - 2014
Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.
— Tal Ben-Shahar American psychologist 1970
Quelle: Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
— Aristophanés, The Birds
heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38 http://books.google.com/books?id=Bk8JAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Sickly%2C+calamitous+creatures+of+clay%22
Birds (414 BC)
„Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;
With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.“
Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus;
Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis.
— Horace, buch Satires
Book II, satire viii, line 96 (trans. Conington)
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
„Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;
With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.“
— John Conington British classical scholar 1825 - 1869
Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus;
Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis.
Book II, satire viii, line 96 (trans. Conington)
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Satires
— Melody Carlson American writer 1956
Quelle: Finding Alice
„Life is short, but it is wide. Genevieve Whitman taught me that.“
— Rebecca Wells American writer 1952
Variante: life is short but it is wide. this too shall pass.
Quelle: Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood
