La brevità della vita (Italian Edition)
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. —SENECA, On the Shortness of Life, Chapter 1
Shane Parrish • Clear Thinking
“This space that has been granted to us rushes by so speedily and so swiftly that all save a very few find life at an end just when they are getting ready to live,” lamented Seneca, the Roman philosopher, in a letter known today under the title On the Shortness of Life.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Seneca said in On the Shortness of Life, ‘It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much.’
Louise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
You are living as if destined to live for ever; your own frailty never occurs to you; you don’t notice how much time has already passed, but squander it as though you had a full and overflowing supply — though all the while that very day which you are devoting to somebody or something may be your last. You act like mortals in all that you fear, and... See more
Maria Popova • The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long
To say that my life is too short is to say not only that I will die but also that I am anxious to lead a flourishing life: to bring my time into focus and respond in practice to the question of what makes my life worth living.