Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

While there's life, there's fear.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

Time is not a friend.

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

But we are not interested in death at all: rather, we escape the facts, we are continuously escaping the facts. Death is there, and every moment we are dying. Death is not something far away, it is here and now: we are dying. But while we are dying we go on being concerned about life. This concern with life, this over concern with life, is just an escape, just a fear. Death is there, deep inside - growing.

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I might suffer. The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.