“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.”
“While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.”
“It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
“I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.”
“Life is shockingly short to trouble about certain things.”
“Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.”