Shortness of life

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As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more.

Psalm 103:15-16

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Ephemeral nature of life Shortness of life The human condition

Source

Psalms The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Hebrew

Time

450 BC 450s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Psalm 103:15-16).

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

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Shortness of life

Speaker

Steve Jobs

Source

2005 Stanford commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

James 4:14

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Ephemeral nature of life Shortness of life Life

Source

James The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

49 40s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (James 4:14).

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Shortness of life Life and death Life Death

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source

The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth Tales of a Wayside Inn

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth." Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1873, sect. 4.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Favorite Poems. Dover Publications, 1992, sect. 4.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

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Shortness of life Ephemeral nature of life Life The human condition

Speaker

Pozzo

Author

Samuel Beckett

Source

Waiting for Godot

Medium

Play

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Directed by Roger Blin. 5 Jan. 1953, Théâtre de Babylone, Paris, France.

Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark-a shining space
With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace.

Robert Graves

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Shortness of life The ephemeral Life

Author

Robert Graves

Source

Sick Love

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." Poems 1929. Seizin Press, 1929, l. 10-12.

Current Citation

Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." The Complete Poems: In One Volume. Penguin Books, 2003, l. 10-12.

On the geologic time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about. The mind blocks the information.

John McPhee

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Scale Shortness of life

Author

John McPhee

Source

Basin and Range

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

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Citation

McPhee, John. Basin and Range. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.

Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset.

H. Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines

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Nature of life Ephemeral nature of life Shortness of life Life Death

Speaker

Ignosi (Umbopa)

Author

H. Rider Haggard

Source

King Solomon's Mines

Medium

Novel

Genre

Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell and Company, 1886.

Current Citation

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Job

Job 14:1-2 KJV

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Ephemeral nature of life Shortness of life The human condition

Speaker

Job

Source

Book of Job The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

500 BC 500s BC 6th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 14:1-2).

Life consists of two dates with a dash in between... Make the dash count.

Stuart Scott

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Shortness of life Life

Author

Stuart Scott

Source

Every Day I Fight

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Scott, Stuart and Larry Platt. Every Day I Fight: Making a Difference, Kicking Cancer's Ass. Blue Rider Press, 2015.

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here for long.

Walker Evans

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Paying attention Shortness of life Observation Listening Seeking

Author

Walker Evans

Source

Many are Called

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Evans, Walker. Many are Called. Yale University Press, 2004, p. 197.

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear.

Hermann Hesse

Narcissus and Goldmund

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Shortness of life Ephemeral nature of life Death

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Narcissus and Goldmund

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Narziß und Goldmund [Narcissus and Goldmund]. Fischer Verlag, 1930.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Narcissus and Goldmund, translated by Ursule Molinaro. Bantam, 1984.