Quotes of the Morning: Mortality Matters

“Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey's over
There'll be time enough to sleep.”
-A.E. Housman

“Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
-A. Whitney Brown

“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
-Betty Smith

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.”
-Albert Einstein

“Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
-Bertrand Russell

“A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
-Charles Darwin

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
-Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes