Where do these quotes about time come from?

Each of the 38 lines links to its own page with the book and passage it comes from, the original-language wording and how it was translated. Nothing is attributed without a source.

Quotes about time

Life is short and the day is now. The ancients on not wasting either.

Don't fear the end. Fear never really starting.Marcus Aurelius
A human being is a bubble.Latin proverb
If now, I die. If later, I'll have lunch first.Epictetus
Alexander and his mule driver ended up in the same place.Marcus Aurelius
Three acts can be the whole play.Marcus Aurelius
Life has a limit. Knowledge has none.Zhuangzi
Keep death in view daily, and you'll never think small.Epictetus
Life is very short. Spend it doing what you love.Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Time is a child playing a board game. The child is king.Heraclitus
Death is nothing to us.Epicurus
A life is a white horse flashing past a crack in the wall.Zhuangzi
Time grows modest honors and erases inflated ones.Theopompus

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Three acts can be the whole play.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.36

A human being is a bubble.

Latin proverb, Erasmus, Adagia (Bland ed. 1814, p. 281)

Life is very short. Spend it doing what you love.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure, Book 2

Soon you'll be no one, nowhere.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.21

Don't fear the end. Fear never really starting.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.1

Life is a dream. Why spend it on what you hate?

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure, Book 2

Life has a limit. Knowledge has none.

Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 3 (Nourishing the Lord of Life)

Life is a long road with a heavy load. Don't hurry.

Nitobe Inazo, Bushido, ch. 8 (Honor)

You don't have ten thousand years. Be good while you can.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.17

Death is nothing to us.

Epicurus, Principal Doctrines 2 (Diogenes Laertius 10)

Time is a child playing a board game. The child is king.

Heraclitus, Fragment B52 (Diels-Kranz)

If now, I die. If later, I'll have lunch first.

Epictetus, Discourses 1.1.32

Keep death in view daily, and you'll never think small.

Epictetus, Enchiridion 21

There is only this one moment. Moment on moment makes a life.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure, Book 2

Alexander and his mule driver ended up in the same place.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.24

Settle with death each morning, and you move freely.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure, Book 1

Do this like it's the last thing you'll ever do.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.5

We're short of nothing so much as time.

Zeno of Citium, Diogenes Laertius 7.23

Stay, leave, or die. That's the whole list. So cheer up.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.22

Time grows modest honors and erases inflated ones.

Theopompus, Plutarch, Sayings of Spartans, Theopompus 5 (221f)

A life is a white horse flashing past a crack in the wall.

Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 22 (Knowledge Rambling in the North)

Treat today as the last one: steady, awake, and real.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.69

Your time has an edge. Clear the clouds now.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.4

Exit kindly. The one releasing you is kind.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.36

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Where do these quotes about time come from?: Each of the 38 lines links to its own page with the book and passage it comes from, the original-language wording and how it was translated. Nothing is attributed without a source.