Isaac Asimov Quotes

Doctor told me I've got two weeks to live. I said: "Can I have the last week in July and the 1st week in August?"

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Things change when you get to 40. I'm embarrassed even that I'm going through it. In a very morbid way, at 40 you become aware of how long you've been on Earth and you start to question what you're going to use the remaining time doing.

You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely.

Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will.

I think so much in time. I always have. Even at 20, I thought in terms of time, that I don't have a lot of time left. And I want to do so many things.

I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes - and that is why I am in a hurry.

Interviewer: "What keeps you grounded?" Bieber: "Gravity." Interviewer: "What's up, Justin?" Bieber: "The sky, man."

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

When asked in his late 90s if his doctor knew he still smoked, Burns said, 'No ... he's dead.'

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

If I was diagnosed with something that was fatal in the next couple of years, I can't imagine anything more terrifying. And so for me, we know a lot about technology and we know a lot about the world, but I think health is the one area where there's so much data, but it's chaotic and that it's still a big black box. So, understanding really what is going to make me healthy and what is going to allow me to live the longest life is definitely keeps me up.

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

Life is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.

Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.