Amado Boudou Quotes

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

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

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

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Life's too short.

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

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

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

I don't think I'm going to live until I'm 70, no; I could die tomorrow. So there isn't a panic that time is running out, but there is an element that anything could happen.

Life is short, the art long.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.