Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"Life is too short to remain unnoticed"
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Too Short
106 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."
Brian Andreas
Artist
"There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing."
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"We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks."
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"Life's too short to bullshit."
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"Life is too short to be in a hurry."
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"Life's too short to wear high heels."
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"I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that."
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"Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it."
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"A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in."
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"I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short."
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"Life is too short for men to take it seriously."
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"Life's too short for anxious score-keeping"
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"Life is too short because we die."
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"My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities."
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"Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors."
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"It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it."
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"And anyway, life's too short."
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"Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter."
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"Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear."
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"It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short."
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