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Quotes About Carpe Diem

Do what you can while you can.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If you have sixty seconds worth of distance...run!
~ Unknown
Each day is a loan, spend it wisely.
~ Unknown
Dance as if no one were watching, Sing as if no one were listening, And live every day as if it were your last
~ Unknown
Life is too short to be sensible.
~ Unknown
Plan like you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.
~ Unknown
I wonder why we too often live as though the life we are living is a trial run—some sort of dress rehearsal. Do we think that somewhere down the road we will get the chance to do it right? This is it! Today is it. You will not live this day again. Savor it.
~ Valorie Burton
Best advice was from a man by the name of James Dean. "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today". I read that my senior year in high school and have never stopped since.
~ Kelly Blatz
It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Live large, because there are no extra days. -Tilt Family Motto
~ Peter Lerangis
In this particular lifestyle the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.
~ Philip K. Dick
What action would not be futile, when a man could look upon his own aged, yellowed skull? Better they should enjoy their temporary lives, while they still had them to enjoy.
~ Philip K. Dick
Do not think of tomorrow. Enjoy the now, for it is all any of us ever have.
~ David Gemmell
I only have a day to give—so why can't it be a good one? Why can't it be a shared one? Why can't I take the music of the moment and see how long it can last?
~ David Levithan
Carpe Deim, Carpe Noctem.
~ Dean Koontz
Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow.
~ Dean Koontz
Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
~ Horace
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
~ Horace
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me, in a fine state, fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus' herd.
~ Horace
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
~ Horace
Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.
~ Horace
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
~ Horace
Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.
~ Horace
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
~ Unknown