Quotes · Skopia

19 quotes

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Topic·Living in the moment✕clear

Scripture · Religious literature

Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!

Isaiah 22:13

681 BC

★ 1.1

Autobiography and memoir

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

1956

★ 1.8

Play · Comedy (play) · Comedy

My advice to you is not to inquire into why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate-that's my philosophy.

Thornton Wilder

1942

★ 1.9

How beautiful is youth, that is always slipping away! Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so: of tomorrow there's no knowing.

Lorenzo de Medici

1490

★ 1.9

Who knows but the world may end tonight?

Robert Browning

1855

★ 1.9

He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

23 BC

★ 2.0

Wise men don't say, "I shall live to do that". Tomorrow's life's too late; live today.

Epigrams · 103

★ 2.0

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Live in the now.

Wayne's World · 1992

★ 2.0

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

23 BC

★ 2.1

Poem · Magazine

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act,—act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1838

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

931 BC

★ 2.2

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Lotte in Weimar · 1939

★ 3.4

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Boris Pasternak

1958

★ 3.6

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

What is love? ’Tis not hereafter. Present mirth hath present laughter. What’s to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty, Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. Youth’s a stuff will not endure.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will · 1602

★ 3.8

Personal journal

With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1839

★ 3.8

Song · Pop music

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Beautiful Boy · 1980

★ 6.4

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying.

1648

★ 6.9

Film · Action (film) · Action

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all that bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.

Dominic Toretto

The Fast and The Furious · 2001

★ 7.0

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

23 BC

★ 8.9