Paul Gauguin Quotes

I do not really think about age. I am just sort of trying to get as much done before I get old and can't.

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

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.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.

I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

Don't waste the time you do have.

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

I'm definitely conscious of time. I already waste so much of it, just on a flight. I look back to when I was 13, and I wish I had stuck with my piano studies.

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.