You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?

How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast.

Death was irreversible, he suspected

Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?' Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. 'This long.' He snapped his fingers. 'A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? William Arthur Ward6

17The world is passing away, and with it its lusts [the shameful pursuits and ungodly longings]; but the one who does the will of God and carries out His purposes lives forever.

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.

Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.

The infinite player in us does not consume time but generates it. Because infinite play is dramatic and has no scripted conclusion, its time is time lived and not time viewed.

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?

Death required me to pay attention to my life, to what I believe. A woman never knows when her life will be required of her.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.