Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a…

If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely…

— Dalai Lama

In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial.

— Milarepa

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our…

— William Shakespeare

But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our…

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

For Yesterday was once To-morrow.

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true…

— Walter Scott

“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. The threads can…

— Clive Barker

“For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.”

— King James Bible

...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for…

— Jack Kerouac

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts…

— William Shakespeare

“What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.”

— Virgil

Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

— Anonymous

“If you are tempted to reveal A tale to you someone has told About another, make it pass, Before you speak, three gates of…

— Beth Day

Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere…

— Joseph Furphy

“You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.”

— Toba Beta