Dante Alighieri Quotes

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day's nigh spent; 'tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale's length past we lined our bowels with dinner, and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i'faith, there's time for naught but bold resolves!

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

It's later than it's ever been.

Get up! I am going to die today.

You never know how much time you got.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Tomorrow is another day toward death.

Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.