Robert Blair Quotes

I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.

Those that God loves, do not live long.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

There will be an answer. Let it be.

I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.

Always be patient. I also believe everything happens for a reason.

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.