Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. РLouis C̩line, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. РStephen Vincent Ben̩t

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

I admire the man who exclaimed, “I have lost a day!” because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it…. – Author unknown, “Flowers of Literature,” 1803