Alexander Pope Quotes

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

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.

Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

After the cancer-free diagnosis, I thought I'd go off and do the things I never did in my teens and twenties. I realised putting things off in life can be dangerous because suddenly you can find you've run out of time.

I really don't want to encourage young people to think that life is about money only. Life is about being able to give yourself choice.

I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

Until today, you may not have realized that your life provides the content of your obituary. Just for today, examine your life. Think about all of the things you want to leave behind. Remember, the good thing about doing this today is that you still have time to rewrite your life's content if necessary.

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.