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Life Span Quotes (page 2)

Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live..."
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laurence Stern quote: "What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this..."
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything. Laurence Stern
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies? and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia. William James
Once that is clearly understood, I think that each of us can stay quietly in the state in which nature has placed him. since the middle station allotted to us is always far from the extremes, what does it matter if someone else has a slightly better understanding of things? If he has, and if he takes them a little further, is he not still infinitely remote from the goal? Is not our span of life equally infinitesimal in eternity, even if it is extended by ten years? In the perspective of... Blaise Pascal
How many of us have a love so true it spans eternity? A purity of need so clear it can remain strong in the face of all that the world throws at us? Thisis Karen Ann McNeil, the woman who fell to Earth, the woman for whom the people in her life never gave up waiting. Doug Coupland
You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience. Jodi Picoult
Just accept as a fact that everyone of any emotional importance to you is related to everyone else of any emotional importance to you; these relationships need not extend to blood, of course, but the people who change your life emotionally - all those people, from different places, from different times, spanning many wholly unrelated coincidences - are nonetheless 'related'. We associate people with each other for emotional not for factual reasons - people who've never met each other, who... John Irving
When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which precedes and will succeed it—memoria hospitis unius diei praetereuntis (remembrance of a guest who tarried but a day)—the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there, now rather than then. Who put me here?... Blaise Pascal
David Grayson quote: "A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little..."
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. David Grayson
Mary Astell quote: "The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in..."
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. Mary Astell

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