Quotes & Sayings About Carpe Diem

carpe diem (seize the day)

Enjoy! Enjoy! — Horace

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow. — Horace

Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today. — James Dean

Because I'd like to think I can still summon the total carpe diem, reckless abandon, bulletproof sense of invincibility that I once had wearing that shirt. — Emily Spivack

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

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

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. — Arthur Miller

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

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. — Eckhart Tolle

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

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools. — Martin Luther

Live the moment, Seize the day, Carpe diem — Lucia Powers

Happiness, not in another place but this place ... not for another hour, but this hour. — Walt Whitman

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. — Abigail Adams

We are the change we have been waiting for. — Barack Obama

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

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

Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration ... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged. — Ernest L. Boyer

I have died so little today, friend, forgive me. — Thomas Lux

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

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

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us ... Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential. — Maria Shriver

Carpe omnia," I say. Not carpe diem. Not Seize the Day. No, this says Seize Everything. I'll — Maria Dahvana Headley

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection. — A.W. Tozer

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace. — Ugo Betti

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

History is a bucket of ashes. — Samuel Butler

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky? — Pablo Neruda

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

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have. — Art Buchwald

This is why they say you should look before you leap. They say a lot of things. Carpe diem. Even platitudes contradict each other. Man, this has to be the longest fall ever if I have the time to think all this. — Swati Avasthi

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make. — Jean Bodin

Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us
what happens with the rest? — Pascal Mercier

Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. — Gina Greenlee

I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart. — M.F.K. Fisher

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

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

A spiritual life means: It is now or never. — Sri Chinmoy

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it. — Thomas More

You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in your last moments, when you're choking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself: 'Well I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman in my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd the one diem — John Green

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

I hear her pacing the house, mumbling, words I can barely make out and am frightened to hear. The words 'Carpe Diem' come from her lips like she's a broken, skipping record, and I clutch the pendant of my necklace tightly, fighting back tears. Because I know she's talking to him, appealing to an invisible man named John, the one who walked out on her when I was born. I know it's not my fault. Not my fault she's this way. Not my fault he left her. But fuck if I don't feel guilty anyway. — J.M. Darhower

Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you're living it. — Mik Everett

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

Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life. — Steve Maraboli

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

Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming. — Virgil

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

The future starts today, not tomorrow. — Pope John Paul II

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. — Henry David Thoreau

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

I believe, my lady, that life is the phantom, and love still more fleeting and elusive - here one minute like a sweet scent you can't quite recognize and gone the next. Best enjoy both while you can. — Dawn Hammill

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world. — Ernest L. Boyer

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

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

I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand. — Tayeb Salih

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

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

Carpe Diem. The words are etched in the metal pendant. Tomorrow isn't a guarantee. Nothing is promised. So today? Seize the Day.
That's how Naz lives his life.
That's how I want to live it with him. — J.M. Darhower

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. — Ernesto Che Guevara

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

I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem! — Jerry Scott

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

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all. — Robin Williams

Live, laugh, love for tomorrow in another day. — Robert Gerus

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."

(Odes: I.11) — Horace

He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid. — Barbara Elsborg

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. — Robin Williams

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

My absolute favourite one is " Seize the Day " I did Latin for A level and the same in the original, " Carpe Diem " is now a great T shirt and coffee mug logo. I love it. — Judith Thomas

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. — George Harrison

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

I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all. — Gail Carriger

The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation. — Steve Maraboli

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

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ... — Marcus Aurelius

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no — Richard Branson

Life is too short to follow the speed limit — Paula Antonia Purpera

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. — Hans Christian Andersen

Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity. — John Silber

Ella. If you don't learn to carpe the diem, you will be, while most certainly not Nobody, something less than a Somebody. — Melissa Jensen

Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village. — James Clavell

Your future depends on what you do today. — Mahatma Gandhi

YOLO. A slogan, a rallying cry, carpe diem for the skateboarder set: You only live once. But was it true? That was the problem, wasn't it? She had never thought about it in any deep way. She hadn't had the time or inclination to speculate about other lives: this one was hard enough to manage. — Sharon Guskin

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

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

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

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently? — Robert Breault

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet. — Jay-Z

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

Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease? — William Habington

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do! — Theophile Thore

You could lose the ones you loved in the blink of an eye - and he was willing to bet, when it happened, you weren't thinking about all the reasons that could have kept you apart. You thought of all the reasons that kept you together.
And, no doubt, how you wished you'd had more time. Even if you'd had centuries ...
When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch - when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.
No one got forever. And it was a fucking crime to waste what you were given. — J.R. Ward

Let's just enjoy what we have now and worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. — James Hampton

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run — Andrew Marvell

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good. — Abraham Lincoln

A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. One's freedom to choose and to change will be unused, exactly as if one were in jail, a jail of one's own building, a maze in which no one way is better than any other. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. You can bet I'm going to make this day count! Will you? — Steve Maraboli