You only delay your death. "Delaying death is one of my…

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

— Rick Riordan

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase…

— Patch Adams

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Postpone, not because you are being lazy. Postpone, only because you want to appear in a grand style.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Don't rush in order to have things done early. Be prepared before you set off. That's the rule. However, this does not mean that…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Many do not acknowledge the preciousness of time, until one day, they behold time slipping away from their very hands.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Saving life and avoiding death are typically shorthand for far less evocative terms: lengthening life and delaying death.”

— H. Gibert Welch

Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.

— Robin Williams

“Life is the struggle of delaying death.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Experiment with delaying commitments until you know enough and see if that leads to success.”

— Anonymous

“People relying on others or someone to complete them are delaying the opportunity to discover the person they are meant to be.”

— Dodinsky

“If you can't avoid it, there is no use denying it by delaying it.”

— Sartika Kurniali

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

— Alan Watts

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

— Ian Mcewan