Quotes About Carpe Diem

As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

Live life today and deal with tomorrow when it comes!

There is no better day than today to do the things you've been putting off. Take action; it's the only way to change your life!

Live each moment like it's the last moment in your life.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.

She had been so fiercely alive. She had spoken honestly, and lived with an honesty that few could claim to match. She had made the most of every minute she was given. She bargained and rationed and managed the seconds. She burned up the days.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

They took their cue from Niall Duggan, a courtly type who spoke in puns, inversions, mock-ee-yah Irish and Sic transit, sonorous, brief bursts of Latin, which always triggered heavy assent, Carpe, yes, carpe indeed. It was a high style of bullshit, quite formal, with no jokes about sex, no disrespecting women. Or no mentioning women, now I come to think about it. Except face to face, when he was often obscene.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.

Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fantastic days are for goners.

You only live once, so why not try to take full advantage of everything?

Life is temporary. We die one day. Live it up!

Tempus breve est, Ora et labora. We aren't given much time on this earth.

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.