Anna C. Brackett Quotes

Age isn't important until you run out of it.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

Life is wasted on the living.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

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

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

The trouble is that you think you have time.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen.

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.

You got to live before you can afford to die.

If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.