Carpe Diem Quotes

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made. ~ Rudolf Steiner

I live with carpe diem engrave on my heart. ~ M.F.K. Fisher

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. ~ Leo Tolstoy

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late. ~ John R. Platt

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! ~ Robin Williams

Then I wondered why on earth would anyone ever stand in the world as if standing in the cornucopic middle of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but inside a tiny white-painted rectangle about the size of a single space in a car park, refusing to come out of it, and all around her or him the whole world, beautiful, various, waiting? ~ Ali Smith

She stared at me "You have a message," she said. "On you machine."
I looked over at my answering machine. Sure enough, the light was blinking. The woman really was a detective.
"It's some girl," La Guerta said. "She sounds kind of sleepy and happy. You got a girlfriend, Dexter?" there was a strange hint of a challenge in her voice.
"You know how it is," I said. "Women today are so forward, and when you are as handsome as I am they absolutely fling themselves at your head." Perhaps an unfortunate choice of words; as I said it I couldn't help thinking of the woman's head flung at me not so long ago.
"Watch out," La Guerta said. "Sooner or later one of them will stick." I had no idea what she thought that meant, but it was a very unsettling image.
"I'm sure you're right," I said. "Until then, carpe diem."
"What?"
"It's Latin," I said. "It means, complain in the daylight. ~ Jeff Lindsay

But tomorrow my rain, so I'll follow the sun ~ The Beatles

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die. ~ Robin Williams

Do you imagine, Peter, that your Carpe Diem boots would look any less deluded to them than that guy's Tony Lamas do to you? There's a comeuppance for everyone, wherever you are, and the farther you go from your own fiefdom, the more ludicrous are your haircut, your clothes, your opinions, your life. Within easy walking distance of home are neighborhoods that might as well be in Saigon. ~ Michael Cunningham

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful so eat the damn red velvet cupcake! ~ Emma Stone

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.) ~ Horace

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. ~ Helen Keller

Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment ... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection. ~ Steve Maraboli

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. ~ Wilson Mizner

Everything is so fleeting and impermanent. It's enough to drive you bat shit crazy. ~ Shane Kuhn

I listened to time clicking like hooves on pavement. But time isn't something you can rein in. It moves on without pause, taking us with it no matter how much we wish it otherwise. ~ Ron Rash

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. ~ Lord Chesterfield

Carpe Diem means Seize the day. Why not seize the moment while you're at it? ~ Laura Foster

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that. ~ Brittany Murphy

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. ~ William James

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Carpe Diem.
Seize the day.
Seize. The. Day.
Seize the day!
And why not?
Why stay here? Why not escape? The path is well trod, and I have my Maglite. Why sit around waiting for impending doom? (Or, at the very least, messy retribution.) You have no choice, Vassar. The water supply is almost depleted, and your life's hanging by the proverbial thread. Get going! ~ Autumn Cornwell

carpe diem." "What?" "It's Latin," I said. "It means, complain in daylight. ~ Jeff Lindsay

The word 'sin' is derived from the Indo-European root 'es-,' meaning 'to be.' When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, 'to be' in the fullest sense is 'to sin'. ~ Mary Daly

Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each day give thanks for the gift of life.You are blessed ~ Pablo

Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today. ~ Eugene S. Ferguson

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination. ~ Emily Dickinson

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~ Simone Weil

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty. ~ Woodrow Wilson

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always
find it. ~ Brian Tracy

I was sitting, starring into the sky with a tear in my eye thinking: what a beautiful world that the MAKER has allowed us to enjoy for a moment - not to destroy - to enjoy. So let us remove the strife, seize the moments we are blessed with and love this life. ~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Le sang nouveau est arrivé," said Vlad.


"Carpe diem," said the Count.


"By the throat," said the Countess. ~ Terry Pratchett

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34 ~ Anonymous

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come
as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours. ~ Thomas Fuller

The future depends on what you do today. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. ~ Edmund Burke

If love and friendship makes you unhappy, try solitude. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart. ~ Erma Bombeck

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. ~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy. ~ Sean Pertwee

It's not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one's sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature. ~ Denise Riley

You cannot worry about what came before or what happens next, what has been lost or what you might gain. There is only this moment. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit. ~ John F. Kennedy

This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals. ~ Wynton Marsalis

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. ~ Tertullian

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain. ~ John Armstrong

She had Dominic now, and tomorrow, perhaps longer. So carpe diem – until she ran out of road. ~ C.C. Gibbs

LIFE CHANGES AHEAD? Darwin never said it was the strongest who survive; he never said it was the smartest either. He said it was the most adaptable. So, lets embrace our next life change with energy and euphoria. Lets make it positive and enlightening like never before. Carpe Diem ~ Lee Johnson

TIME: Today Is My Everything ~ Richie Norton

My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other cultures and religions. The more people are exposed to other philosophies and thoughts, the more possible it becomes to resolve world conflicts peacefully. Education builds tolerance for other points of view. ~ John Hendricks

What are you willing to have left undone in your life? Don't let yourself be another example of a life gambled but not lived. Do not waste another day! If not now, when? ~ Steve Maraboli

Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that. ~ Mark Twain

Carpe diem they say, Seize the day, Because before long, Tomorrow will dawn, And you will be gone. ~ Laura Thalassa

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets. ~ Roman Payne

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. ~ George Washington

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably - at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe diem' is not enough - I have been obliged to crop even the seconds - for who can trust to tomorrow? ~ Lord Byron

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath
so what does that make today worth? ~ Og Mandino

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it. ~ Corita Kent

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again. ~ William Sharp

The very old can tell you about peace. They have fought through the black, sinking, visceral knowledge of death–their own death–that heralds middle age and come to the place where childhood meets them once more, and with it that ineffable treasure that only the very young and old know: the tranquility of the moment. The contentment of living each day as it comes to them, wholly and with all senses. The young do it because they know nothing, yet, of pain and fear and the transience of their lives; the old because they know everything of those things and can bear them only by staying in the moment. Carpe diem> may be the sum of all the world's wisdom. I have always thought Horace must have been old when he wrote it. ~ Anne Rivers Siddons

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life
is the real sin against the holy spirit of life ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. ~ Stephen Fry

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around ~ Dr. Seuss

Above all, you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness ... ~ Virginia Woolf

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~ Wendy Wasserstein

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul. ~ Drew Barrymore

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. ~ Groucho Marx

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. ~ William Shakespeare

The artist has a special task and duty ... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity. ~ Lewis Mumford

We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows. ~ R.A. Salvatore

I drive too fast;
I love too much;
I wish to die every day I live and I live like my wish was to come true.
Ghandi, Ensler, Chanel, and others… What have they got on you but the ability to put into words what you feel. Somewhere deep inside you feel, we all feel, that instinct for carpe diem. It is just that most don't know it until the moment they are about to die...
Carpe diem amici mei, carpe diem iam. ~ B. Farkas

Isaac basically knew just one thing for sure: Many are born, few flourish, all die. If you didn't die as a sacrifice for God today, you would die of an incomprehensible plague tomorrow, or of undeserved starvation the day after, or of good old-fashioned senseless human slaughter before the next harvest. Life was short in those days and people were grateful for whatever they could get. They didn't expect wireless video game consoles, fast German cars, dental insurance, anti-depressants, and a pension. ~ Chris F. Westbury

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. ~ Robert Frost

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. ~ Mother Teresa

I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet. (Oct. 28th is officially Slap A Dead Poet Day in our Family now) ~ Joanne Sherman

Carpe diem was the lesson to be learned. It's what I had been trying to teach Ben when I let him run ahead in the woods. Seize the day - be brave - be independent - be thoughtful - don't be scared to make mistakes - keep learning - all of those things, all the time. And somebody had taken him. More fool me. Ruth's ~ Gilly Macmillan

Do anything, but let it produce joy. ~ Walt Whitman

Well, it does make you realize that life, even at its longest, is still very short. ~ Kaira Rouda

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat? ~ Goldie Hawn

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. ~ Charles Evans Hughes

Rest in Peace?' Why that phrase? That's the most ridiculous phrase I've ever heard! You die, and they say 'Rest in Peace!' …Why would one need to 'rest' when they're dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d'Arc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I'm only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won't need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on. ~ Roman Payne

Today is all you have. Don't worry about tomorrow. Just do the best you can right now. One day, one moment at a time. ~ Akiroq Brost

So act that anything you do may become universal law. ~ Immanuel Kant

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. ~ Frank Barron

See, my aim is not to survive but to be thrown to the wolfs with adrenaline still pumping in my veins and hear the gods laughing saying "that was one hell of a youth" and everything I do I do in order to push my senses and levels of natural ecstasy. I want to be so awake that I pass out by exhaustion every night with a smile on my face and no thoughts of tomorrow because today was all I ever could make of it and I am sick and tired of boredom. Bored people slumbering boring words about bored habits and I want to get out. ~ Charlotte Eriksson

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself. ~ W. W. Dumas

But bid life seize the present?
It lives less in the present
Than in the future always,
And less in both together
Than in the past.
The present
Is too much for the senses,
Too crowding, too confusing
Too present to imagine. ~ Robert Frost

Carpe diem, miss. Foolish youth is a strange and wondrous time that vanishes too quickly. ~ K.A. Tucker

Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want. ~ Jessica Sorensen

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. ~ Henry David Thoreau

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. ~ Arundhati Roy

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit. ~ Herbie Hancock

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. ~ Edith Wharton

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead. ~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley