My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American Novelist, Playwright
All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92) American Quaker Poet, Abolitionist
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
—Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) American Art Critic, Historian
Let us therefore set out whole-heartedly, leaving aside our many distractions and exert ourselves in this single purpose, before we realize too late the swift and unstoppable flight of time and are left behind. As each day arises, welcome it as the very best day of all, and make it your own possession. We must seize what flees.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
—Unknown
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning – how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
—George Will (b.1941) American Columnist, Author, Commentator
We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
—Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) French Philosopher, Playwright, Novelist, Activist
The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American Journalist, Humorist
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
—George Matthew Adams (1878–1962) American Columnist, Journalist
Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
—Margaret Fuller (1810–50) American Feminist, Writer, Revolutionary
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (1904–91) American Children’s Writer, Cartoonist, Animator
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. Waste not the smallest time in imbecile infirmity, for well thou knowest that seconds form eternity.
—Edward Frederick Knight (1852–1925) British Journalist, Sailor
Do not take life too seriously—you will never get out of it alive.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Stop waiting. Twenty years is the first bomb of the future.
—Unknown
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French Poet, Playwright, Film Director
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
—Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) American Author, Social Activist
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.
—Art Buchwald (1925–2007) American Humorist, Satirist, Columnist
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Later never exists.
—Unknown
Is there life before death?
—Unknown
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