Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

Press on!--For in the grave there is no work And no device--Press on! while yet ye may!

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

Every hour has its end.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.

Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.

A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.