Life span or lifespan may refer to:
- Maximum life span, the maximum lifespan observed in a group
- Life expectancy, the average lifespan expected of a group
- Longevity, the average lifespan expected under ideal conditions
- Lifespan (film), a 1976 film starring Klaus Kinski
Famous quotes containing the words life and/or span:
“There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto—God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“Life’s brief span [vitae summa brevis] forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)