#shortness

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16. ↗

— John Cusack

#become #different #i #person #shortness

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#frailty #immortality #life #mortality #shortness-of-life

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

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The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#breath #distressing #more #more and more #rose

There will always be causes for anxiety, whether due to prosperity or to wretchedness. Life will be driven on through a succession of preoccupations: we shall always long for leisure, but never enjoy it. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life

Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#mortality #shortness-of-life #time #life

And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#fame #life #shortness-of-life #life