Paul Bowles Quotes

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

Do you live each day as if it's your first or your last? Either way you should probably have a diaper on.

Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

Today will never come again.

Life is once. Forever.

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

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

Life is wasted on the living.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

I enjoy every moment because I believe that once we die, that's it. We're not coming back.

When you dead, you dead.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day.

These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.