Time and Mortality Quotes
“Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.”
— Delmore Schwartz
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
— Buddha
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
— Lord Byron
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
— Stephen King
“Life is fleeting, like a passing mist. It is like trying to catch hold of a breath; All vanishes like a vapor; everything is a great vanity.”
— Ecclesiastes 1:2
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
— Albert Einstein
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”
— Dion Boucicault
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
—Henry David Thoreau
“Our time in this world is limited, and how we respect that time will create a greater possibility for fulfillment.”
— Ruben Papian
“Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.”
— Faith Baldwin
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”
—William Wallace
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
—Marcus Aurelius
“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
— Charles F. Kettering
“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away…”
—Terry Pratchett
“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”
— Stephen R. Covey
“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints.”
— George Carlin
“You may delay, but time will not.”
—Benjamin Franklin
“How did it get so late so soon?”
— Dr. Seuss
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
— Langston Hughes
“Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.”
—John Dewey
“Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
—Sophocles
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
— Carl Sandburg
“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
—Woody Allen
“The only way to combat mortal time is to tie it to the immortal memories.”
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“Time is a storm in which we are all lost.”
— William Carlos Williams
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
—Charles Darwin
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
— Alice Walker
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”
—Sarah Louise Delany
“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
— Max Frisch
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
— Michael Altshuler
“Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.”
—Marcus Aurelius
“An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.”
— Margaret Peters
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
—C.S. Lewis
“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”
— Tecumseh
“Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment because it will never come again.”
— Jean-Luc Picard, “Star Trek”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
—William Faulkner
“We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.”
—William Shakespeare
“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”
— Welcome to Night Vale
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
—William Penn
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
—Mark Twain
“Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
— Norman Cousins
“With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.”
—Paul Berg
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”
— Steve Jobs
“Time itself comes in drops.”
—William James
“Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.”
—Unknown
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
— Mitch Albom
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
—William Blake
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
—William James
“Life is a brief intermission, between birth and death, enjoy it.”
— M.K. Soni
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place.”
—Marcus Aurelius
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte
“Time brings all things to pass.”
— Aeschylus
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”
—Kevin Kruse
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
—Oscar Wilde
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
— Theophrastus
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
—Benjamin Franklin
“Our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
— Steve Jobs
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.'”
— Lao Tzu
“Death is the destination we all share; no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.”
— Steve Jobs
“The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
— Will Rogers
“If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”
— Samuel Butler
“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
— Anthony Doerr
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
— Bertrand Russell
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
— Stephen Vincent Benét
“Time does not pass, it continues.”
— Marty Rubin
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
— Langston Hughes
“Time is long but life is short.”
— Stevie Wonder
“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.”
— Seneca
“Life is short. Death is forever.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“The less routine the more life.”
— Amos Bronson Alcott
“The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.”
—Shannon L. Alder
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
—Marcel Proust
“Life is too short when you think of the length of death.”
— Sean Mangan
“It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
—Steve Jobs
“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”
—Steve Jobs
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”
— Denis Waitley
“Life is fleeting, like a passing mist. It is like trying to catch hold of a breath; All vanishes like a vapor; everything is a great vanity.”
—Ecclesiastes
“One must work with time and not against it.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
“Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.”
— Dick Sharples
“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
—Charles Buxton
“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.”
—Zachary Scott
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
—Homer
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.'”
—Lao Tzu