Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

I don't look ahead to the future as a vast, endless one. I've begun to feel the calendar pages turning.

Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

If you try to stay young forever, you don't really live.

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day.

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

Above all, learn to live when you're dying.