Life's Fleetingness Quotes

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.

Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.

What I like about acting is that you have to be super, super present in the moment. That's not something that comes to me naturally. But if you take the long view on anything, nothing can really affect you or knock you down. It's like, we're here for a blink, we're just the human experiment, one of many experiments going on in the universe, and it's interesting, it's beautiful by fits and starts, but I can't take it that personally. I'm just one of billions of people attempting.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows because he sees that his life will be over altogether too soon. He sees that nothing is more important than anything else.

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.