Nas Quotes

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Time flies never to be recalled.

All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.

I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.

That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Take no moment for granted.

I live my life until there's no more living to be done. Because you never know when it's going to stop. Wake up tomorrow and it could all be gone, bro. All the cars, all the motorcycles, everything. All the memories. We could go into a state of emergency, you know, and the world goes to war. The money won't count for nothing.

Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.

Eternity ceased gradually to serve as the measure and focus of human actions.

None of us can be sure of how long we will live. Because this is so, I think you should try not to think too much about dying but think about all the nice things that make life so precious to us all.