Too often too late comes too soon. – Dr.SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting. – Dr. Seuss
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. – Wayne Dyer
I have died so little today, friend, forgive me. – Thomas Lux
Every man dies. Not every man really lives. – Braveheart
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. – Elbert Hubbard
Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”? – Norman Douglas
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, “Economy,” Walden, 1854
To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Walter Scott
Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect… God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M. It means “Memento Mori” — remember you must die. – J. Furniss, Tracts for Spiritual Reading
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back. – Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? – David Brin
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. – Francis Bacon, Essays
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. – Charles Buxton
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. – Margaret Fuller
Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says, “I am coming.” – Virgil, Minor Poems, Copa
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith
Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. – John Henry Cardinal Newman
You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. – Ruth E. Renkl
