Robin McKinley Quotes

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

Just do whatever you want to in life. One day tomorrow won't be there.

You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

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

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

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.

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour

That maybe you should make the most of what time you have? That you shouldlive while you’re alive?

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

Live tonight, cuz you can't take it with ya.

So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.

There is nothing serious in Mortality

To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he is to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.