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Quotes About Time

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
~ John Mellencamp
The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.
~ Nobuyoshi Araki
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
~ Christopher Fry
Death may call any moment. Every moment, everyone is nearing death.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]
~ Horace
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.
~ Joseph Brodsky
For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.
~ Edith Piaf
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
~ Mark Twain
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
~ William C. Bryant
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
~ George Gordon Byron
Tomorrow is another day toward death.
~ Sylvia Plath
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
~ Gautama Buddha
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'
~ Tom Robbins
Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
~ Harold Pinter
We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.
~ Courtney Summers
It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.
~ T. S. Eliot
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
~ Dodie Smith
It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!
~ Emily Dickinson
When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.
~ Epicurus