Borrowed Time Quotes

• He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Crush, Running, Dog

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

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• Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you're on borrowed time. Always remember, It's good to be alive.

  Jason Gray

  Alive, Tomorrow, Remember

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• John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Birthday, Sentimental, Said

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• I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

  Agatha Christie

  Death, Waiting, Dying

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Eye, Sorrow, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.110, Vintage

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• We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

  John M. Ford

  Debt, Pay, Come Up

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

  André Aciman

  Agency, Needs, Pay

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.162, Macmillan

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• Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

  Kate Jacobs

  Waiting, Live Your Life, Unmasking

  Kate Jacobs (2012). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

  Agatha Christie

  Mother, Memorable, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.

  Henri Matisse

  Thinking, Joy, Suffering

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• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

  Agatha Christie

  Life, Retirement, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

  Agatha Christie

  Funny Friend, Old Friends, Literature

  Agatha Christie “Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat the gods. The grander house and the bigger deal only mean more borrowed time, more risk. When you build your life on a house of cards, you never know when the joker will turn up.

  Paul Levine

  Sweet, Mean, House Of Cards

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• Only see you when I close my eyes. We on borrowed time when I delayed the sunlight.

  Bobby V

  Falling In Love, Eye, Sunlight

  Song: Anonymous, Album: Special Occasion, 2007

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• For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Errors, Evil

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• These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

  Steve Squyres

  Past, Trying, Living On

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• I am the representative of all the sick people and what they are doing to me is only the worst case right now, but there will be others. I am living on borrowed time anyway. I owe this part of my life to luck and modern medical science. But I can't imagine what the rest of it will be like if they won't let me use medical marijuana.

  Peter McWilliams

  Marijuana, Sick, People

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