Ezra Pound Quotes

You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

We're burnin' daylight!

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

No one should waste a day.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.

Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.

Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.

There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.