It’s a great opportunity to get you a huge collection of quotes and great sayings. Carpe Diem Quotes now for you in one page.
There are so many words, so the introduction has no important place here, take a look below.
Carpe Diem Quotes & Saying Pictures
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ~ Charles Buxton
You may delay, but time will not. ~ Benjamin Franklin
You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. ~ Ruth E. Renkl
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. ~ Joan Baez
Yiipppeeee! It’s a new day! A special day. It’s today! ~ Terri Guillemets
Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? ~ David Brin
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”? ~ Norman Douglas
Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days, and hours. ~ Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas – Divine Weeks and Works, 1578
Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at least it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share. ~ Mark Z. Danielewski – House of Leaves
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. ~ Art Buchwald
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. ~ Indian Saying
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck – Wisdom and Destiny, 1901, translated by Alfred Sutro
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning — how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. ~ Lord Byron
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche – Human, All Too Human
When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die. ~ Attributed to Jim Elliot
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ~ Samuel Johnson
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. ~ John Howe
We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are — that is the fact. ~ Jean Paul Sartre – Situations, 1939
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. ~ George MacDonald
We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. ~ George M. Adams
We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. ~ Michael Leboeuf
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. Waste not the smallest time in imbecile infirmity, for well thou knowest that seconds form eternity. ~ E. Knight
Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. ~ Author Unknown
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting. ~ Dr. Seuss
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw
To-morrow — oh, ’twill never be,
If we should live a thousand years!
Our time is all to-day, to-day,
The same, though changed; and while it flies
With still small voice the moments say:
“To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.” ~ James Montgomery – To-day
To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. ~ William James
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
‘Tis better to buy a small bouquet
And give to your friend this very day,
Than a bushel of roses white and red
To lay on his coffin after he’s dead. ~ Author Unknown
Time! where didst thou those years inter
Which I have seene decease? ~ William Habington
Time wears all his locks before;
Take thy hold upon his forehead;
When he flies, he turns no more,
And behind his scalp is naked. ~ Robert Southwell
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. ~ Jonathan Swift
Time is like the wind
That comes in the morning
With a barely palpable caress of the cheek
Rising to a comfortable caress
In its measured passage of the day
Until it rises a sudden gale
Revealing the irrevocability of its power
Trembling our browning leaves
And blowing them to our finality. ~ Phillip Pulfrey – from Beyond Me, www.originals.net
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~ Hector Berlioz
though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing. ~ e.e. cummings
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. ~ Jean de La Bruyère
There’s time enough, but none to spare. ~ Charles W. Chesnutt
There was George, throwing away in hideous sloth the inestimable gift of time; his valuable life, every second of which he would have to account for hereafter, passing away from him, unused…. sprawling there, sunk in soul-clogging oblivion. ~ Jerome K. Jerome – Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889
There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, –
There is only one To-day. ~ Joaquin Miller
There are but three events in a man’s life: birth, life, and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. ~ Jean de la Bruyère
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back. ~ Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
The word “now” is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. ~ Arthur Miller – After the Fall, 1964
The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. ~ Lord Chesterfield
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ~ Author unknown – sometimes attributed to W.M. Lewis
The time you think you’re missing misses you too. ~ Terri Guillemets
The swift years slip and slide adown the steep;
The slow years pass; neither will come again. ~ William Sharp
The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. ~ Hamilton
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ~ Jack London
The problem with putting off things you’ve always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there. ~ Monica Baldwin
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. ~ George F. Will
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity. ~ Helen Rowland
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~ Mark Twain
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~ Tillie Olsen – Tell Me a Riddle
That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet… ~ Emily Dickinson
…Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver – “The Summer Day” (poem)
So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man’s genius contracts itself to a very few hours. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar. ~ Horace
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. ~ Mason Cooley
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ~ Sydney J. Harris
Present your family and friends with their eulogies now — they won’t be able to hear how much you love and appreciate them from the grave. ~ Anonymous
Our time consumes like smoke, and posts away;
Nor can we treasure up a month or day:
The sand within the transitory glass
Doth haste, and so our silent minutes pass. ~ Rowland Watkyns
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. ~ William Hazlitt – On the Love of Life, 1815
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. ~ Henry David Thoreau
One can make a day of any size… ~ John Muir – August 1875 [I love how this sounds like it could so beautifully apply to the “carpe diem” concept which is why I placed it on this page, but a note of context here: This is actually about hours of light in a day, “The glories of a mountain campfire are far greater than may be guessed…. One can make a day of any size, and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.”]
No! no arresting the vast wheel of time,
That round and round still turns with onward might. ~ Charles Cowden Clarke
No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~ Spanish Proverb
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
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. ~ Louis Céline – Voyage au bout du monde, 1932
Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank. ~ Ben Irwin
Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely. ~ Thomas P. Murphy
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~ Dion Boucicault
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~ Margaret Fuller
May you live all the days of your life. ~ Jonathan Swift
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. ~ Henry S. Haskins
Lost time is never found again. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you’re sure to be right. ~ Harry “Breaker” Harbord Morant
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. ~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Life, if well lived, is long enough. ~ Seneca – De Ira
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. ~ Allen Saunders – 1957
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
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. ~ Samuel Johnson
Life is always walking up to us and saying, “Come on in, the living’s fine,” and what do we do? Back off and take its picture. ~ Russell Baker
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. ~ B. Alan Wallace
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ~ Mark Twain
Later never exists. ~ Author Unknown
It’s funny how life can get away from you even while you’re still living it. ~ Joe Kita – “The Key to Happiness,” Wisdom of Our Fathers, 1999
Is there life before death? ~ Author Unknown
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one’s life. ~ Marcel Proust – The Past Recaptured, 1927
I’m less interested in why we’re here. I’m wholly devoted to while we’re here. ~ Erika Harris – empathicwriter.com
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. ~ Larry McMurtry – Some Can Whistle
If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently? ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
If you believe in forever, then life is just a one-night stand. ~ Righteous Brothers – “Rock & Roll Heaven”
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
If life has those moments — ecstasies of health, youth and peace… — treasure them. ~ Byron Caldwell Smith – letter to Kate Stephens
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. ~ Edmund Wilson
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. ~ Bernard Berenson
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. ~ William Shakespeare
I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth — I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace. ~ Henry James
I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity. ~ Hazel Lee
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. ~ Tagore
I have died so little today, friend, forgive me. ~ Thomas Lux
I admire the man who exclaimed, “I have lost a day!” because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it…. ~ Author unknown – “Flowers of Literature,” 1803
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. ~ Annie Dillard – The Writing Life
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. ~ Jean Cocteau
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. ~ Sydney Smith
Had I not lived with Mirabeau, I never should have known all that can be done in a day, or, rather, in an interval of twelve hours. A day to him was of more value than a week or a month to others. To?morrow to him was not the same impostor as to most others. ~ Pierre Etienne Louis Dumont
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. ~ Wayne Dyer
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may;
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying. ~ Robert Herrick
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
Fields can lie fallow, but we can’t; we have less time. ~ Mignon McLaughlin – The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
Expect an early death — it will keep you busier. ~ Martin H. Fischer
Every second is of infinite value. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every man dies. Not every man really lives. ~ Braveheart
Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. ~ Mary Manin Morrissey
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. ~ Mignon McLaughlin – The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. ~ Author Unknown
Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think. ~ Chinese Proverb
Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow’s past and change it. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com
Don’t put off your happy life. ~ Author Unknown
Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion. ~ Author Unknown
Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~ Charles Richards
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?… If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. ~ Epictetus
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says, “I am coming.” ~ Virgil – Minor Poems, Copa
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. ~ William Shakespeare – Julius Caesar, 1600
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!
Life’s a short summer, man a flower;
He dies — alas! how soon he dies! ~ Samuel Johnson
But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone “This Man Died from Living Too Much.” ~ Ian Fleming – From Russia with Love
Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake. ~ Marie Ray
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead. ~ Scottish Proverb
As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do. ~ Zachary Scott
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~ Henry David Thoreau – “Economy,” Walden, 1854
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes – “The Voiceless”
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. ~ Francis Bacon – Essays