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Quotes About Time

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
~ Friedrich Schiller
When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]
~ George Herbert
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
~ George Herbert
As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.
~ George Saunders
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
~ George Washington
One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.
~ Glen Duncan
I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.
~ Grace Slick
I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
~ Haruki Murakami
We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.
~ Gillian Anderson
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.
~ Theresa Villiers
Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
~ Thomas Browne
Death will be too late to bring us aid.
~ William Carlos Williams
The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
More are men's ends marked than their lives before.The setting sun, the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.
~ William Shakespeare
And the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The last good time always comes
~ Stephen King, Joyland
All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.
~ William Shakespeare
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many a summer dieth the swan.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
~ Lord Byron
Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.
~ Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back...
~ Unknown