“I'll be here tomorrow
If I can make it through today.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
“Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.”
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Religious leader and peace activist 1926Related quotes
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Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’:
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I, 15.
Variant translations:
'I'll live to-morrow', 'tis not wise to say:
'Twill be too late to-morrow—live to-day.
Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say;
Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.
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Incidentals (1904)
Context: Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
We may pull apart the petals of a rose or make chemical analysis of its perfume, but the mystic beauty of its form and odor is still a secret, locked in to where we have no keys.