You have been preoccupied while life hastens on.

You have been preoccupied while life hastens on. Meanwhile death will arrive, and you have no choice in making yourself available for that. Seneca

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy. Seneca

We are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it. Seneca