Patti Smith Quotes

Act now, for now is all you have.

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

The only thing you ever have is now.

Live for each second without hesitation

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.

Live each day as your last, and tomorrow is forever

Live and die on this day... Live and die on this day.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

I keep living this day like the next will never come.

Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.

Today is the youngest you will ever be. Live like it.

Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.

Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

I'm about the present.

Now is the only thing that exists.

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.