Borrowed Time Quotes

“I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.”
― Tears for Fears

“But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life; it was a borrowed life. One that I was temporarily wearing until I could sort out my own.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“The last time I ever saw Jeff alive, he gave me a gift - an hourglass. And it took over two decades later for the symbolism to finally dawn on me: an hourglass, gifted from a young man with one foot planted in the next world. His time was running out. Even the hourglass he gifted me appeared to have been stolen - I imagine from the desktop of one of the school classrooms he was hired to clean. Not borrowed time but stolen.”
― Tiffany Midge, Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's