Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. – William Shakespeare
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. – Henry David Thoreau
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. – Henry S. Haskins
Every second is of infinite value. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are always getting ready to live but never living. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. – George F. Will
We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are — that is the fact. – Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sydney J. Harris
No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. – Spanish Proverb
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. – Hector Berlioz
Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days, and hours. – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weeks and Works, 1578
Life, if well lived, is long enough. – Seneca, De Ira
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. – John Howe
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – Author unknown, sometimes attributed to W.M. Lewis
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning — how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. – Lord Byron
