Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
Life is too short, and Proust is too long.
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Reading is the best way to live in somebody else's shoes.
Life is too short to be lived badly.
Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.