Famous Carpe Diem Sayings & Quotes

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? ~David Brin
Famous Carpe Diem Sayings & Quotes

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. ~Francis Bacon, Essays


You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ~Charles Buxton


Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~Margaret Fuller

Carpe Diem Quotations

To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. ~Walter Scott
Carpe Diem Quotations

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. ~John Burroughs


Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect... God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M. It means "Memento Mori" - remember you must die. ~J. Furniss, Tracts for Spiritual Reading

Great Carpe Diem Phrases

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. ~Fr. Alfred D'Souza
Great Carpe Diem Phrases

Time! where didst thou those years inter
Which I have seene decease?
~William Habington


Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb

Carpe Diem Qoutes

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Economy," Walden, 1854

Carpe Diem Qoutes
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. ~Stephen Vincent Benét


And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln


There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ~George Santayana, "War Shrines," Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, 1922

Carpe Diem Sayings

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. ~Zachary Scott
Carpe Diem Sayings

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


Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ~James Dean


Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? ~Norman Douglas