Short

Famous quotes containing the word short:

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Love requited is a short circuit.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there. For there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)