Life Span Quotes

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

In the long run we are all dead.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

There are lots of scary things about getting older, but one of the biggest, I guess, is death itself. Especially in midlife, when we suddenly wake up to the fact we may have fewer years left than we have already lived.

Time is the fire in which we burn.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Life is long. But it goes fast.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

You can't halt time.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you.

Progress of preventive medicine as a preservative, made more effective by the progress of reason and social order, will eventually banish communicable or contagious illnesses and those diseases in general that originate in climate, food, and the nature of work…a time will come when death would result only from extraordinary accidents or the more and more gradual wearing out of vitality….Cannot the span constantly increase between the moment he begins to live and the time when naturally, without illness or accident, he finds life a burden?

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

Time is death.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

There's always time to grow older. You can never grow younger.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.